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Regardless of the CSAM issue, regardless of the "revenge porn" issue, even for fully legitimate performers these publishers such as OnlyFans and Pornhub are act
by ramesh31 5y ago
Regardless of the CSAM issue, regardless of the "revenge porn" issue, even for fully legitimate performers these publishers such as OnlyFans and Pornhub are acting as digital pimps skimming billions of dollars from the value provided by their users. We should be promoting FOSS alternatives that allow performers to truly own their own content and control who profits from it. Not crying over the takedown of another walled garden big tech aggregator. They are no different than the sleazy strip club owner who takes a cut of his dancer's tips.
- johnnyanmac 5y agoThe "FOSS" alternative is a single model with their own site, which some bigger ones have. Even then, they have to setup some payment processor, on top of domain/hosing costs and find some solution on designing the actual page. Mostly doable, but a pain. Except I don't think we'll have FOSS payment processing software until (if ever) cryptocurrency becomes mainstream. This is like asking why everyone uploads to Steam when they can just publish their game on their own website. These services are selling convivence and curation (and to a much lesser extent, "security". i.e. the website isn't full of viruses), like 90% of the big websites.