It's been a long time since I did a #pornocalypse post, because I've gotten weary. But Blake's work (@pandorablake) and mine go WAY back to the mourned #OldWeb better days together, and the distressing #pornocalypse loss of their #kink #education channel on #YouTube illustrates a trend I hadn't blogged about before, so: http://www.erosblog.com/2023/09/06/pornocalypse-comes-for-kink-education/

That's enough depressing #pornocalypse conversation for me this morning.

I have a new wheelbarrow, I have a shovel, I have keys to the pasture, I'm going to go visit my neighbor's horse and steal some fertilizer. #productivity

@JessMahler @pandorablake OK, I may have said it better the first time, back in May:

"Increasingly the hot new trend in #pornocalypse is social media platforms banning accounts and people not for what they posted/linked, but merely because of who they are. Biggest example was PornHub getting banned from Instagram despite having a whole team of lawyers and creatives making sure their Insta account broke no rules."

Sibling, I feel every word of this. Fuck them all, indeed. I stopped dancing around the TOS on porn-hostile platforms years ago, and like you I'm not out of ideas for things to try, but I am out of energy. All the traffic is locked in silos where we're not welcome, and people (aka "the traffic") like it well enough they won't follow us to the places where we're still free to speak plainly. It's demoralizing. #pornocalypse

@JessMahler @pandorablake I've said for awhile now that the newest face of #pornocalypse tends to ignore content and focus on the brand/person/creator behind the content. If the *person* is seen by the platform as pornified, their account's content will be banned no matter how tightly conforming to the specific rules of a porn-hostile platform. See, e.g., PornHub getting banned from Instagram. It's part of why the perpetual optimism of "I'll follow the rules and be OK" makes me so. very. tired.

Specifically:

1) an essay by Corey Doctorow that requires a Medium login to read, of the type that he used to publish on the open web as part of his activism;

2) A 1930s vintage erotic postcard on Pinterest, where both the save button and right clicking is disabled except for logged in users and imagesource is heavily obfuscated in the page code;

3) An erotic art image on a site that limits adult image viewing to logged-in users for #pornocalypse reasons, and further disables right-clicking.

On three different occasions today I followed links to content that used to be on the open web, only to be confronted by paywalls or "free" login-only access that is too expensive in terms of privacy, security, cognitive burden, or frustration.

There's very little open web left and a lot of that (including my stuff) is effectively invisible in the enshittified search engines and unwelcome in the pornocalypsed social media silos.

#enshittification #pornocalypse #OpenWeb

@spanksandsnacks Amen, preach it, brother!

I've been noisily disgruntled about the Fedi ideology of structured non-discovery, but at the end of the day, this is the first social media that's broadly immune to the #pornocalypse. Sure, it's possible in theory to get banned by your instance for specific misbehavior, but not having to worry about getting stomped flat for no reason by the random blunderings of prudish global capital? Priceless!

@girlonthenet #pornocalypse came for their hungers

@gallaimage @aliceenamour Also Steve Jobs: the design of the iPad, what we today call Apple's "walled garden", was intended to create, as he put it, "freedom from porn."

Yeah, I do have a long memory. And receipts: http://www.erosblog.com/2010/05/15/freedom-from-porn/

#pornocalypse #SteveJobs #grudge

So....#Reddit all of a sudden discovered that porn and free access built them enough capital to attempt to run with the Big Boys, so they are torching everything to become Baby Muskrat or The New Facebook.

The #Pornocalypse remains undefeated.

@jeremy Jeremy, do you know if JetPack has ever resolved its #pornocalypse problem?

Five years ago (the last time I looked) JetPack had the same porn-hostile TOS that WordPress.com has, making it unsafe to use by self-hosted WordPress bloggers who publish adult material. AFAIK this has not been enforced, but if the TOS never got fixed, it would still be a prudential barrier to many of us. Thanks!

https://twitter.com/ErosBlogBacchus/status/1073213577346080768

In my daily workflow I am seeing SO MANY 404s at Imgur URLs now. #Pornocalypse

Just now I was looking at the posting rules for a subreddit and the rules had a pair of URLs with example erotic photos to illustrate what was allowed and what was not. You guessed it: those URLs were 404.

Rain deGrey talking about how she's shutting down her podcast due to #ShadowBanning and the general #SocialMedia #SearchInvisibility problem for creators in the adult space:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-over-83654162

She's not wrong. You can't build a small independent business without social media and because of the #pornocalypse, nothing you do in the adult space or even vaguely tangential to it is welcome on social media. It's a fatal conundrum.

@AdaraAstin @timgatewood That does suck! Increasingly the hot new trend in #pornocalypse is social media platforms banning accounts and people not for what they posted/linked, but merely because of who they are. Biggest example was PornHub getting banned from Instagram despite having a whole team of lawyers and creatives making sure their Insta account broke no rules. It's frustrating, and it's why I never have the courage to try anything effortful on adult-hostile social media channels.

@qblueheart One thing I did not expect before it started happening is that our future AI overlords would have #pornocalypse baked in.

@glassbottommeg No doubt you're right about cultural choice. I've been tracking #pornocalypse issues long enough to know that they aren't always predictable based on self-interest; Steve Job's notorious prudery informed/inspired Apple's "no porn in our walled garden" stance, which got built so deep into Apple's culture that it now *looks* like it was a mindful economic choice all along, since every part of the business that conflicted with it got ejected many years ago. http://www.erosblog.com/2010/05/15/freedom-from-porn/

@glassbottommeg I wonder if the premium search engines practice search invisibility and reduced visibility for porn, LGBTQ+, sex ed, and so forth, the way the traditional search engines have been doing for years?

I suppose it depends on whether they are intensely focused on search accuracy, or instead may be making perhaps-true assumptions that paying customers are corporate customers with #pornocalypse attitudes about #NSFW search results.

@CyberpunkLibrarian #pornocalypse

@KinkyLotus @FinalOverdrive "How are you supposed to market your work when you're standing on quicksand on every fucking platform there is?"

I have been fighting this problem ever since Google added anti-porn filters that can't be removed by turning off "Safe Search". I still don't have good answers. Social media ALWAYS penalizes adult content, no exceptions. "The #pornocalypse comes for us all." It's wearying, is what it is. http://www.erosblog.com/?s=pornocalypse