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Comment by xg15

I do think it's important to have intermediate categories. A world in which there is only "family friendly" content on the mainstream platforms and everything else, including extreme fetishes is shoved together into the sketchy no-name sites would be bad. On the one hand, it would associate a lot of people whose content is reasonably close to the mainstream with the extreme ends, on the other hand, it would confront a lot of users with extreme stuff even if they don't really have an interest in it.

As a concrete example: What the queer community wants is do become more accepted as a normal part of societies. Telling them "you're not welcome here, but feel free to promote at pornhub with the other freaks" would be the exact opposite.

Lastly, "content" doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's possible that large commercial platforms can show stuff that small indie artists would be getting banned for.

parent xg15 5 days ago

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