Ah man, now how am I gonna kickstart this orgy?
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).
What counts as NSFW when you work in porn?
Drugs? Taxes?
Taxes truely are the unsafest thing for work
Can’t Kickstarter just find another payment processor?
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.
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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.
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?
Tumblr was also caused by the nanny state behavior of Verizon when they bought it.
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
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.
Sure but they don’t make the final decisions, visa and Mastercard, the money holders do
Backed by their US based founders, dont put this solely on Australia.
Shh. You’ll anger your future shareholder king!
People should ask why it makes them uncomfortable.
Wait… Kickstarter had NSFW content?
Ah, trash. Or atleast the slop I wish wasn’t on the steam store.
I don’t like it so therefore I’ts slop
I know that there’s the occasional spicy comic or photoshoot, and I think I recently came across a kind of squishy ball you could insert rectally to make anal sex less messy. So there was some stuff at least.
I saw an interview with the founders not too long ago. It’s golf ball sized, soft/firm thing and it’s designed to be pushed in. I’ll leave the details out, but it is engineered to dissolve after a few hours. It’s meant as a way to bypass douching prior to the act.
Found the YT link. It’s 30 minutes of education and entertainment.
A ball? 2 things internet has thought me…
- Never put a finger on the trigger if you’re not going to kill someone
- Never put anything without a solid base in your rectum.
The jar was pretty solid. Don’t recommend it though.
I’ve seen people push out billiard balls and whole apples out of their backend. These were of course trained professionals, but a small ball that turns soft wouldn’t be much of a problem.
The idea apparently was that the warmth of the rectum makes the ball very squishy again, allowing you to easily push it out again.
*flared base
That hole already serves the function of pushing out squishy things though.
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Behold the results of negotiating with the terrorists that we call evangelicals
and musk and thiel apparently
Osama bin Thiel
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.
i thought payment processors dont like porn because it has a high charge back rate.
It’s Stripe. The CEO has ties with Palantir and Elon Musk and wants all porn to be banned.
Ironic, 100% chance he’s a pedo
both are pedos, thiel just havnt been investigated heavily hes into younger men, boys where he can use thier blood to make him younger.
“Nobody gets adult porn if I can’t get my pedophile porn!”
- Stripe CEO
If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.
It sounds like it’s just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they’re afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That’s a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don’t make.
Yes liability. That makes sense.
Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more
Another article confirmed it was payment processors again. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I’d kind of assume that that’s on the specific project. I can’t imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.
IIRC, no, they don’t. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.
Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.
As a former serial backer, over the years I “only” have backed 40 or so (I don’t remember the exact number and don’t want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn’t do anything about it. The other one that didn’t deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.
I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.
They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.
Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.
That’s like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.
You can’t really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.
Now apply that to politics.
They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough
Prohibition worked. It had the annoying unintended consequence is some people ignored it and became criminals, but alcohol consumption clearly dropped when it was in effect.
You are correct, technically Prohibition worked, but its one of those “at what cost” scenarios. The absolute explosion in organized crime that came with it along with the associated cost of enforcement for fighting alcohol consumption makes the argument for a different approach.
I won’t downvote you because what you said is true, its just that the negative association of the explosion of crime and government overreach into peoples’ lives gives people a kneejerk reaction to the statement.
People often don’t think of WHY the prohibition movement was so popular that it could get an amendment passed, but alcoholism at that time was so much more severe than we can even fathom today. Their approach was wrong, but they had legitimate grievance.
And yet the illegal alcohol market boomed and it gave massive rise to organized crime and government corruption to allow it. It doesn’t “work” in any practical sense, it just concentrates the problem and makes it even harder to control.
It completely works if you ignore all of the times it didn’t work.
It only didn’t work if you demand absolute perfection, which is unreasonable. I’m going to stand by it worked.
I already addressed the unintended consequences.
Just like the “War On Drugs” worked; Drugs won!
yay drugs!
Okay, real question, if prohibition on drugs doesn’t matter, why all the hubbub about states legalizing weed years back? “Prohibition doesn’t work, anyway,” so who cares?
I think the hubbub was because the states were legalizing something illegal at the federal level and that wasn’t a precedent that had been set yet.
The only point of interest is that the states and the federal disagree?
This is so fucking stupid. Has anyone ever thought work should be a whole lot cooler about things?
It’s a donation platform that uses Monero, and therefore, even if, for some reason, they took down your page, you still could receive money.
Can’t even view the website without accepting the terms of service, titled “The Contract”. Privacy Policy section says provided data is considered public domain.
I don’t think that’s lawful. Certainly doesn’t feel like an inherently trustworthy platform.
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 :/
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.
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.
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.
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.
your wallet
what if I don’t have a “wallet”? the fuck is a wallet in this context anyways?
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.
