Modern social media power rankings
1. ActivityPub fediverse
2. Tumblr
- all below this line are dogshit-
3. Twitter
4. Instagram
5. Bluesky
6. Facebook
7. Nostr
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@coolboymew when they banned porn all of the insane people left and now its perfect
@vriska @coolboymew the only reason they banned the porn was they couldn't fine-grained stop their actual homegrown child porn of trans kids getting groomed so they just banned everything.
@sun @coolboymew unlike every other social platform listed, tumblr self policed that. There was no "pedi" on tumblr and twitter is child porn central. the tumblr porn ban was to appease advertisers. The company did lose like95% of its value
@vriska @coolboymew there was a coordinated attack on all platforms by a group of state governors, they just blamed advertisers because leftists can't admit government might be the cause of something. same group killed craigslist personals that self-policed.
@sun @coolboymew my point is that even before a blanket ban we were murdering those people and running them off. More effectively than anyone has ever done it. Like I said, internet porn is inherently immoral
@vriska @coolboymew I am quite sure that you were not intersecting with that section of tumblr, it did leak out sometimes though. I absolutely do not believe that tumblr wanted it or monetized it but they absolutely couldn't effectively stop it without banning all porn. which yeah, tells you something.
@sun @coolboymew my only interaction with that was joining large campaigns to mass repprt/suicide bait the perpetrators tbh
@sun @coolboymew and what it really tells me is that banning porn is unequivocally good
@vriska @coolboymew it's unequivocally moral but not sure it's possible or desirable to totally ban for various reasons
@ageha @vriska @coolboymew I'm generally against banning stuff wholesale because you never get what you asked for
@sun @vriska @coolboymew
"ban porn" is like, and bad in the same ways as, "ban drugs" (perspective of asexual who doesn't substances heh
"ban porn" is like, and bad in the same ways as, "ban drugs" (perspective of asexual who doesn't substances heh
@ageha @coolboymew @sun I'm not necessarily saying it should be blanket illegal but if I had a website I would ban it. To me it's pretty much the same thing as banning factory farms and meat consumption. It's a net positive in theory but impossible in practice
@ageha @coolboymew @sun not good for the people on meth in barely legal gangrape video
@vriska @coolboymew @sun
cute books or manga or whatever that include lewd stuff are often "wholesome" and nice
and other end of the spectrum, even "intimate-contact-included" sex work is, in personal experience, not a bad thing for all clients, and surveying across people i've met or read, not bad for all workers either (sometimes that not bad is "i enjoy it sometimes, i hate it sometimes, i get paid money, and in general it's better than the other jobs i could be doing right now
cute books or manga or whatever that include lewd stuff are often "wholesome" and nice
and other end of the spectrum, even "intimate-contact-included" sex work is, in personal experience, not a bad thing for all clients, and surveying across people i've met or read, not bad for all workers either (sometimes that not bad is "i enjoy it sometimes, i hate it sometimes, i get paid money, and in general it's better than the other jobs i could be doing right now
@ageha @vriska @coolboymew can we agree that billion dollar monetizing human suffering industry version of pornography is tautologically bad and leave the debate about if a woman sells vids on her personal website and takes allt he profit herself and isn't coerced (how often does this really happen though) might be okay or might have systemic consequences as a separaet debaet
@sun @ageha @coolboymew @vriska Simply ban any sort of payment for sex or porn. This solves 99% of the problem. No trafficking, no prostitution, no coerced videos, just random perverts uploading their home videos and pictures.
@nerthos @ageha @coolboymew @vriska denying copyright for porn is actually a valid way to permit it relativelyt non-exploitatively
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@nerthos @ageha @coolboymew @vriska I think it's a bad idea for payment processors to discriminate on morals, they can discriminate on economic risk, so like porn has crazy high chargeback rates so they generally wont service those customers
@sun @ageha @coolboymew @vriska I mean, if there's a legal ban on it, they can just say "nah we won't touch it because law says so"
@nerthos @ageha @coolboymew @vriska that's different I'm just saying in general you're getting into risky territory if systems you effectively have to go through to do commerce like credit card companies, create fairly arbitrary moral rules on you. that's not their job, they are very close to a public utility and need to be obligated to act neutrally.