• spaceracoon@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Website/social starts, queers, LGTBQ+ and furries go there to find refuge from the mainstream oppression. There is fun, art, and porn. Sex drives traffic. Website becomes important. Company see the cash, they want investors or sell but big investors in the west are Christo fascist so no sex anymore.

    Repeat 🥲

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      Just reply to all Craiglist Missed connections. Half won’t stay but 6+ is still a good time. Provided you don’t get nauseated by random smells.

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    I fund a ton of queer yaoi/yuri visual novels. This sucks. I hate the trend of absolute puritanical governing (which is just used to attack queer people).

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      If it helps it’s the payment processors doing this, not Kickstarter themselves. They are somewhat being held to ransom like a few of the other places that stopped allowing sexual nsfw content. Murder and mayhem, as usual, totally okay. Boobies bad. Death and hate totally fine…

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        This is what Bitcoin was invented for. No government or bank can control it.

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          They can and should ban the currency of it at this point. Destroy all of that “wealth” and make recognize it as illegal. If nothing else it stops people from being forced into using it the way cc does

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            It is peer to peer, you cannot ban or remove it, it is here forever. There are no central points to remove. It is individuals networking with other individuals.

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      Lots of nsfw sites like manyvids use bitcoin or others. It works just fine once you get used to it. No government or bank controls bitcoin, making it and sites using it immune to shutdown like this. They’d have to take down the actual site and even that pirate bay and others have shown is futile.

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      America has a monopoly on payment processing worldwide. EU needs to step up their game

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      Hahahahaha no

      Even when you start dogging into non America processors they still use the visa/mastercard network more often then naught to some degree and are held to their rules.

      You have to stick to very small processors that rarerly ever actually do anything across their own countries borders. Making them literally less then useless for a company like kickstarter.

      Large scale international processors basically don’t exist in a fashion thats useable.

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    I hope some NSFW only kickstarter clone comes from this, it’d be both really fun to browse and I think it’d make some cool, fun, weird etc. products real.

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    This dystopia is sofa king boring.

    For those who haven’t read it: it’s Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn’t doing a Tumblr; they’re just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.

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      Wasn’t Tumblr just reacting to Apple pulling them for underage content and just blanket banning all adult content instead of actually dealing with the problem?

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    I was thinking about this the other day. Are the powers that be worried about innovation in adult content getting so good that people will stop seeking out real companionship? In their minds it could lead to a drop in births, leading to a drop in consumers and producers.

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      The only people that would consider porn/etc as a replacement for real sexual intimacy are people who’ve never experienced it.

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      That is generally the impetus behind religious institutions disdain for it. Their best chance to increase their numbers is through indoctrination of the children of their current members. Conversions rarely occur, despite how much they are talked up when they do.

      They are, of course, wrong to think that. Toys, in practice, generally increase intimacy and likelihood of a couple having children. But not as much as being raised your entire life being told that it is the entire purpose of life and if you don’t have as many kids as you theoretically could, you have done yourself a disservice. So as long as they conflate the results, they will keep assuming they are correct in doing both.

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        IMO it’s more about control. I went to Christian private school. Students dating was forbidden.

        They keep children sheltered before pushing them into a marriage/parenthood that is sustained by their participation in the church community. Tho this doesn’t seem to work as well these days as I know of several marriages that ended within 1 year.

        From there it’s a simple matter of peer pressure to keep people in line. I’ve seen parents disown their children to protect their reputation at church.

        It’s a fucking cult.

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      Yeah but how tf do you buy things with monero? 😭

      I spent an afternoon trying to work it out once, and it’s not exactly intuitive, and it seems like the people who convert from normal money into crypto still hold all the strings :/

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        Buying a product is actually rather easy. You’re just presented with an address and an amount and you can copy and paste that address and amount into your wallet and click send. You are also presented with a QR code where you can scan it and a lot of websites even present a open with wallet button that you click and it will auto fill in the address and amount necessary.

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          your wallet

          what if I don’t have a “wallet”? the fuck is a wallet in this context anyways?

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            A wallet is nothing more than a piece of software that understands the Monero network and the way it works and allows you to store Monero. Look at getmonero.org for a list of recommended wallets.

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          You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:

          • get a wallet
          • make sure your wallet is secure
          • fund the wallet from a trusted source
          • back up your wallet

          Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.

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            It may not be quite as friendly, but PayPal or your bank can also freeze your account at any time and nobody can freeze your Monero address at any time for any reason.

            So you can pick sovereignty or convenience. With Monero you have full sovereignty, but with the banking system you have a lot more convenience.

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            Been a sec I used XMR, but getting a secure wallet was simply built into the desktop gui wallet (which is the default recommended option on getmonero.org). While getting that wallet it also tells you to backup the seed phase (preferably by printing it iirc). It has a simple mode especially for non-tech users.

            So installing the GUI wallet takes care of 3/4 points, then to fund it you just find any reputable crypto exchange that supports sending Monero in your region (I used kraken before in the eu). By design in Monero the platform (which does have to do KYC probably) doesn’t know anything about where they sent the money. Transactions are not traceable in Monero.

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              then to fund it you just find any reputable crypto exchange that supports sending Monero in your region (I used kraken before in the eu). By design in Monero the platform (which does have to do KYC probably) doesn’t know anything about where they sent the money. Transactions are not traceable in Monero.

              so why should anyone have any faith in a crypto exchange not doing the exact same shit as paypal? if they know their customers and if they can plainly see that one of their customers accepts monero for something they don’t like, they don’t have to prove that any money has gone to them, they could simply lock them out of any future exchanges just by way of pointing out that they advertise a monero address (or whatever) even if they can’t link it back to them

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                That’s why you move the XMR to your wallet first, and do not send it directly. The crypto exchange doesn’t know anything about where you’re sending the money if you do that.

                They can’t see anything about Monero by design. There’s a leaked cia/fbi/? presentation out there of them working to trace Monero for a single purchase, on an older version of the protocol.