The adult content guidelines have been normalized on Tumblr since November 2022, but if you want to know why it's not free for all porn anymore check out this post: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...
> If you wanted to start an adult social network in 2022, you’d need to be web-only on iOS and side load on Android, take payment in crypto, have a way to convert crypto to fiat for business operations without being blocked, do a ton of work in age and identity verification and compliance so you don’t go to jail, protect all of that identity information so you don’t dox your users
The verification part makes sense¹, but the rest of it... this is why I try to be conscious of what kind of payment methods and app stores I use and incentivize... (that is, no paypal/creditcard if avoidable; f-droid or install directly from developer's own site if they publish it)
¹ though I don't see why you couldn't rm -rf verification data upon setting verified=1 on the account, with a SFW picture in case you need to later check that the person being shown is the one on the material; or keep a provably random 1% of each year in an offline vault to prove that guidelines were followed; or... there are options here
Internet is great these days
- Porn was quarantined reasonably well
- Twitter was "too big to ban"
Those factors are rapidly disappearing, so it will be interesting to see if Twitter lasts...