There's something ironic about a centralised entity complaining about other centralised entities...
If you look at Matt's conceptual framework, you can find the implicit frame around his argument. It's not really "impossible", but it is "impossible if you are a centralised, for-profit platform".
As a counter-example to this post, look at Mastodon. There are iOS and Android apps available, dozens if not hundreds of servers which permit NSFW content, all operating quite happily and covering costs without making a profit. For example, mastodon.lol uses Patreon to accept donations for covering server costs.
Mastodon is not perfect, but don't pretend that it's impossible to build a "go nuts, show nuts" platform in 2022. It might be impossible to build a centralised, for-profit platform like that, but that doesn't mean it's impossible outside of the constraints of walled-garden attention-economy capitalism.
If you look at Matt's conceptual framework, you can find the implicit frame around his argument. It's not really "impossible", but it is "impossible if you are a centralised, for-profit platform".
As a counter-example to this post, look at Mastodon. There are iOS and Android apps available, dozens if not hundreds of servers which permit NSFW content, all operating quite happily and covering costs without making a profit. For example, mastodon.lol uses Patreon to accept donations for covering server costs.
Mastodon is not perfect, but don't pretend that it's impossible to build a "go nuts, show nuts" platform in 2022. It might be impossible to build a centralised, for-profit platform like that, but that doesn't mean it's impossible outside of the constraints of walled-garden attention-economy capitalism.