Elfi @elfi@pixie.town

Frustrated w/ the Itch/Steam thing?

There's literally TONS of dedicated payment processors that handle NSFW/adult/etc content. Problem is we need more info on which ones allow what, and how much they cost, because this tends to not be on their sites.

We need help w/ emailing sales reps! See below👇🏻

We're collecting (public! free!) information on all of these processors, what their negotiable ranges are, any "hidden" costs, etc, as part of our work on Conjured Ink, but this is literally the kind of thing that could help e.g. Itch itself and others.

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/VgGHggJdka

Talking to all of these places is a lot of legwork, so having more folks doing this—especially folks who might be creatives themselves who would be interested in using these services and who know how to talk to sales reps—will help us get this huge task done in a short amount of time.

Also, we're gonna have a landing page and FAQ coming soon, but we're doing all this research so we can build a new space where creatives can host and sell THEIR OWN stuff without being beholden to the whims of sweeping platform-level policies (or paying platform fees a cut, even)

BOOSTS WELCOME!!

(Footnote: I am begging mastodon people to not derail this conversation just because they see Discord here. Please meet people where they are, and creatives are not going to use Matrix, as much as I would like them to. I am also begging people to not derail this into talk about cryptocurrency. I am not going to discuss either of these things and will simply mute you at even the slightest mention of either one)

Artist friends and I have put together a summer advertisement zine inspired by retro magazine ads! ☀️ Featuring beautiful retro art by over 40+ artists!

Please check it out! Enjoy your summer everyone! 😎 #SummerAdZine

🌴 https://tinyurl.com/SummerAdZine

I've made the icon for the ISP I'm a part of. :3
Made with Inkscape, shapes made in GIMP.

Amazing doc compiling all the resources needed to complain to visa/mastercard for their censoring campaign: phones, emails, letter template as well as petitions to sign and share!!!

🫵🐭 let's do it!

🔗 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNAdVCogC14dinW4OCnzNX1JkhJdTmUIStzvSROChjo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.is6wig4rp8vp

Doc from: https://bsky.app/profile/voiddebris.bsky.social

I've seen people that are like "sending a picture of your face/ID for verification isn't that big of a deal" and now today there was a massive leak of such photos.

Plea for action from Australians copied from Bsky:

If any fellow Aussies think its inappropriate for a registered Australian charity (Collective Shout) to bully an indie website (Itch) into reviewing all NSWF (+ random other) content, and to pretend 'lobbying' is 'charity', here's where you can report misuse of their charity status: https://www.acnc.gov.au/

You're looking for the Raise a concern menu. The option is Raise a concern about a charity.

According to the screenshot, the ABN is 30162159097. As I'm not an Australian, I haven't gone through the process myself.

source: https://bsky.app/profile/eliseswritings.bsky.social/post/3lursey6mqc26

#Austraila #ItchIo #Itch #CollectiveShout

We will never support the use of AI to produce images and do not allow AI images on our website. AI training = theft, and using AI damages people’s livelihoods. The Arts are an expression of human creativity and the human condition, with all its differences and nuances. Let’s keep it that way. #NoAI

his name is Big Dipper and I love him