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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 (๐).
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
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
AFAIK there's pay processing business that will do nsfw transactions but they ask for extra money.
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...
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...banning porn ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฃ
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.
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.
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.
what even is the point of this cyberpunk dystopia if there won't even be good porn to wank to?
Sex art is art
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
Tupรฃ bless Brazil's pix.
At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.