This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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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).
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...
This is what Bitcoin was invented for. No government or bank can control it.
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
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.
They can't stop people from using it but they can ban it from being used for things like paying debt, buying cars buying houses etc
Ah man, now how am I gonna kickstart this orgy?
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.
What counts as NSFW when you work in porn?
Drugs? Taxes?
Unless you're a politician. Then it is infact safe for work.
Taxes truely are the unsafest thing for work
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.
Tumblr was also caused by the nanny state behavior of Verizon when they bought it.
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?
Canβt Kickstarter just find another payment processor?
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.
America has a monopoly on payment processing worldwide. EU needs to step up their game
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.
Its such a good thing to see a pretty normal part of the human experience get ripped out of every place humans gather because it makes the money holders uncomfortable.
Is not even money holders. It's those small but loud "Christian" groups, like that one from Australia that kicked up a shit storm with Steam not long ago.
Religious extremists, you say?
Sure but they donβt make the final decisions, visa and Mastercard, the money holders do
Backed by their US based founders, dont put this solely on Australia.
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.
That will never happen unfortunately. Kickstarter got rid of NSFW because Visa and Mastercard are run by American religious extremists who want to criminalize porn.
You'd need a whole different international payment system that isn't run or influenced by religious extremism.
I can think of an option but no one likes it because it sucks.
Dickstarter
"For all the hardest projects"
the puritanical mania we've arrived at in 2026 was not in my bingo cards. sigh.
Well with the completion of the project 2025 I can completely see how we got here I mean history does relay itself
true, i had my head in the sand while doing nsfw things
Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.
Probably a bit of both. Usually it's the payment processors being lobbied by vocal "Christian" groups.
It's Stripe. The CEO has ties with Palantir and Elon Musk and wants all porn to be banned.
Behold the results of negotiating with the terrorists that we call evangelicals
