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> What is it people actually want?

They want their specific content shown to as many people as possible. They don't want to have their content limited to over-18 or NSFW websites.

The thing is, I think that the content-hosting platforms' broad "NSFW content is not welcome" rules is great. While I may not object to seeing a male nipple pop up in my feed, I won't object if male nipples never pop up either.

It is working the way I want it to, but it sounds to me that the complaint is that I should at least see this type of content occasionally even if I don't seek it out, which seems completely bonkers to me.

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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.

> 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.

That's not a bad example; what would the other "freaks" be in this situation? Transgenders? Furries?

The IRL people I know who are the L, G and B in LGB<insert rest of alphabet here>... are most definitely not on board with being lumped in, as a group, with transgenders. Or furries.

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