I do think this is basically correct, yeah; if you're someone producing 'adult' work you can't really consider even the most well-intentioned storefront safe because it exists in a regulatory and financial context it has no control over

i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art

remember everybody, what's truly important here is that the people I like are not accountable in any way.

as always it's those angry queers, it's those sex workers, it's those smut merchants - it's always their fault for not seeing how hard it was to make the decision to throw them under the bus. and it's seen as a horrible affront if those people don't immediately say "i understand why you crushed me"

getting upset at developers for being mad at itch io after deindexing adult games and freezing payments has to be one of the more reddit-brained things I've seen on this website

the entire ecosystem sucks, why hand-wring over whether a distribution platform is one of the good guys.

itch fucked this up because they knew this situation might be coming down the pipeline & they allowed it to happen anyway by kicking the can down the road and fucking over a pretty substantial portion of their userbase that depends on their platform. no one can act like they were blindsided by this

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

Part of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.