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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
I wonder how long this will last. The NSFW industry is insanely huge. If the current payment processors cut it off, that leaves a giant gap in the market just waiting to get filled (π).
If they hold firm on this, it might just be a rare opportunity for a new (and hopefully better) payment processor to enter the market.
Or maybe just wider crypto adoption, idk.
I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Collective Shout happened, an australian organisation decided to wage global war on anything NSFW in games (so far), their key talking points are allegedly being feminist and anti-exploitation of women.
i wonder if they asked the women they're saying they're protecting if they want that "protection", or if they're imagining that women just don't make NSFW art
Why would they ask? They know whatβs best for everyone. All people. All around the world.
/s
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
Undoing all the gains made during the sexual revolution. Conservatives taking us back to the puritanical dark ages.
It's not even conservative any more. It's regressive.
Always has been
These conservatives are old, so they are trying to "conserve" ideals that were out of touch in their own time
This is why some of us love crypto currencies so much despite the hate it gets from so many who claim there is no intrinsic value, it's a scam, etc.
Stay away from shit coins, no doubt, but the intrinsic value is that you can side step all of the bullshit and spend your money as you choose. No need to get permission first. It's looking to be a much better path forward, and payment processors inserting their own rules will only drive more acceptance of alternative payment methods.
I mean this is a false dichotomy. You can have a payment system that isn't a shit show like crypto or a duopoly like Visa and Mastercard.
??? Nothing about what I said was a dichotomy of any kind. Where did I exclude the possibility to create something else?
All I did was use this situation to illustrate why crypto has value today.
Imagine how many more "Thomas Matthew Crooks" are gonna come out of their basements if you ban their porn. Conservatives secretly love their porn. Might wanna rethink the ban.
Or not, I don't mind watching a IRL live movie about a rebellion instigated by...
checks notes
...banning porn π€¦ββοΈπ€£
what even is the point of this cyberpunk dystopia if there won't even be good porn to wank to?
I don't get it. Will they also ban sex shops, adult cinemas and every other offline adult entertainment thing that exist?
Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.
This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.
There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That's how this actually became a meme.
Sex art is art
i wonder if this is the shitgibbons in charge trying to drive up bitcoin prices seeing as how they just publicly bought a bunch of bitcoin.
i know the payment processors have always been prudes but they are really doubling down and its only going to drive folks to crypto.
edit: I don't think it's a good idea either but talk to anyone outside lemmy and ask if they understand the environmental impact of crypto and AI and they have no clue.
Bitcoin is really bad for using as currency, due to the fact that there is a permanent, public ledger of all transactions. Why would you want anyone you pay to be able to see and trace every transaction you've ever made? Pay rent in bitcoin, now your landlord can calculate your spending and who you do transactions with. And yes, there are services that aggregate and obfuscate transactions in order to make them less traceable, but now you've just reinvented the same centralized payment processor system that the whole thing is supposed to be replacing... so... what's the point?
Cash is good for using as currency.
I'm cool with not trying the money that isn't money but instead is an environmental disaster wrapped in explosive deflation.
If this really does drive people to crypto then I hope it goes to monero or a fork of it. Try blocking or tracking transactions then.
So, why doesn't some other payment processor step in to fill in the demand gap that the others are willfully abdicating?
the economic moat of regulations and infrastructure that has to be overcome before you even can start acquiring customers. You would need a massive capital outlay just to start in last position to compete. Then you have to pay your sydadmins and sales and help desk and administration for how long before you have enough customers to break even? all on a gamble that the government won't hamstring you on behalf of their corporate sponsors. and who is to say the rest of the financial world won't cut you off; you can't process payments if you can't access users banks, it's all cooperative between entities that benefit from it being a small club.
all of this risk to capture the relatively small nsfw market looks like a bad gamble to me, even though i strongly support the nsfw market myself! I spent decades in e-commerce and nsfw ecommerce and it's trickier than it might look.
The most likely to succeed at the moment, IMHO, would be a standardization of the various local payment systems in Europe, and there is already some movement in that direction in a growing group of countries, but it probably needs a push from the EU itself, similarly to how GSM was pushed as a standard for mobile communications by European governments as a group and ended up dominating globally (which is also why, for a period and until smartphones became a thing, European mobile telephony companies were wildly successful).
I'm sorry for Americans who aren't assholes (most here in Lemmy as far as I can tell) but the rest of the World does need to decouple from speed-running-to-Gilead America at all levels before it's too late.
Let's make a community run payment processor then. We'll valiantly process porn payments.
Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.
Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.
And that's if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.
Mastercard? No sorry, we only take WokeCoin π€·ββοΈ
MasterbationCard
Vaga
That spelling normally infuriates me, but in service of the pun, we're going to have to allow it.
I'm not a cryptobro but these things make me want to hodl on some
cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client's money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?
I was worried that this could make bitcoin seem useful but other people in here are explaining why bitcoin would still be an awful solution for this.
So... are we going back to cash and checks? Will people need to mail envelopes of cash to furry vore artists?
Bitcoin wouldn't be an awful solution to this, but there's certainly a few better ones, such as
So, this means that pretty much any paid adult content can't accept visa, right? Or are they just stomping in the small creators for not being profitable enough?
Looking at you, OnlyFans..
For now, they are targeting more niche βtabooβ kinks like incest and bdsm. But as weβve seen time and time again with bigoted, puritanical christofascists, they will not stop there. Next, they come for the queer content. My guess is furry stuff is next under the bad faith argument of βbestialityβ, then more standard queer content, including tame non-erotic content. Finally, all erotic content.
Remember, everything sexual is sinful and evil unless its a straight white cis Christian married couple having joyless missionary sex for the purposes of procreation only.
Valve has changed their content guidelines due to the requirements of the credit card processors. Itch.io, too. I wouldn't call Valve niche.
They're already attacking furry content featuring "animal-esque genitalia", as there were people who thought that was "zoophilic". However, I still remember how much anime fans needed to fight, so that kemonomimi (catgirls, etc.) wouldn't been labeled as "zoophilic", which might be the source for the furry/anime divide in the west.
TupΓ£ bless Brazil's pix.
At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.