Museums are finding it nearly impossible to post imagery containing artistic nudity on social media because their posts keep getting deleted and accounts suspended or banned, so Vienna's museums opened a page on OnlyFans.
TikTok closed the Alberta museum account for showing an obscured woman's breast.
Facebook ruled the 25,000 year old Venus of Willendorf figurine as pornographic and removed the post.
@polychrome All because the stupid American false prudishness... The USA is enforcing it's stupid cultural system onto rest of the world, where it is absolutely right to show all kinds of violence, but showing the natural body is criminal.
@polychrome They *could* open an account on Mastodon instead. This place is full of much worse so no one will complain.
@lydiaconwell @polychrome Yes, that's exactly right.
@polychrome I guess the fediverse still has some way to go to be noticed then. They could easily run their own instance and cw stuff and fit in to the network perfectly. They are already asking people to jump ship to a different network by using onlyfans so why not go to running a pixelfed instance? I assume, because they didn't know they could, and that onlyfans is well know enough to be sensationalist which suits the narrative
Funny that DA will allow you to post all the nudes you want and blur the thumbnail, requiring someone to click one time extra to actually see the picture; and that seems to work fine with few if any complaints.
It bugs me that there are legit reasons not to want nudes just out there on a site, but it's so easy to accommodate people who like seeing and posting them. Yet these sites won't do it. So typical to promise a tailored experience for the viewer and they say, "No we're doing it this one way so take it or leave it." 🖕
Deviant Art has already got enough of a reputation for hosting "adult" content that British Telecom mobile services (EE) will silently block it unless the SIM card is associated with correct age ID), which also happens to "independent" sites about harm reduction for drugs that aren't run by the NHS or UK government, but interestingly the Fediverse gets through unfiltered...
I think its more that the Fediverse is spread across multiple different sites so it takes them a while to catch up and they only act on things that have been reported (its only altered DNS routing, using a VPN allows you to get round the blocks). As soon as Daily Mail readers teenage kids start using Fedi I expect /some/ sites might get blocked but its more likely to be big ones like mastodon.social
They don't think about Fediverse as a single entity. Regulators, corporations - and most of the society - have no clue about what Fediverse is about and how it operates. From their point of view, it's a random and disconnected collection of niche websites.
@kravietz @polychrome @xenophora
also its more difficult to justify blocking the whole lot, when instances have different policies on what is acceptable and in Northern Europe it could be viewed as discrimination against LGBT+ communities which would be /very/ unpopular..
That said there's nothing stopping an ISP scraping an existing instance list and using it to block hundreds/thousands of instances if they so wished, but as yet Fedi isn't that popular with younger teens >>
@kravietz @polychrome @xenophora
there are teenagers on here, but they tend to be around 6th form age (senior high school year) and are smart enough not to draw excessive attention to the Fediverse, aren't using it to facilitate anti social behaviour (such as gang fights/violence) and tend to have liberal, tolerant parents who don't make a fuss about them using it.
This is something folk have to be wary of when they say they want to see the Fediverse becoming the "new cool thing".,,
@polychrome@cybre.space oh so they'll give a building an onlyfans but not me smdh
@MxFrizzle truly injustice. 
@polychrome i wonder if this will lead a museum to try running a fediverse compatible site. Also what museum might be the first to try it.
@polychrome This are the puritan crap ideas from the US seeping over to Europe!
@polychrome Clearly there's no way for them to post to their own website, and there cannot possibly be one...
@raucao it's about outreach. They want to promote the arts and 'social media' is more passively accessible to average people without the need for the audience to take the initiative and actively visit a website.
@polychrome Yes, I realize that. But they should really just run their own Pixelfed. Alas, most don't have an IT person in their organization, who could know about these things and set them up.
You could then still sync posts from the open web to the various silos, except for the ones that have disabled their post APIs.
@kinetix It's about outreach. They want to promote the arts and social media is more passively accessible to average people without the need for the audience to take the initiative and actively visit a website.
I look forward to the day when Facebook and their ilk are rejected by most.
@polychrome oh that’s hilarious