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Moderation is definitely an issue, but most hosted Gemini/gopher sites have some pretty tight limitations in terms of storage space.
I think if someone wanted to have a site that consistently pushed boundaries of what is acceptable content they'd pretty much have to host it themselves. At that point it's less of a question of moderation and more of holding someone responsible for their actions.
2023-07-05 · 11 months ago
1. Encourage NSFW Content As What (Some) People Want
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2. Discourage NSFW Content As Unwanted And Harmful
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3. Let It Grow If It Wants To
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My only concern with it is the potential legal implications. Some countries might ban capsules, or the Gemini protocol itself, due to NSFW content being easily available. Other countries require an age gate or age verification for NSFW content. The only mechanism Gemini has to enforce such verification (that I'm aware of) is client certificates and server-side tracking of which certificates have consented.
A surprising amount of Pornhub content is gets proxied through the public Stargate proxy I run. The HTML-to-Gemtext actually works and extracts all the thumbnails images as image links... 😮🙈😄
@Acidus I suspect you’re going to see even more now with people (such as myself 😅) trying it out out of morbid curiosity
For me, good labeling is what matters most. I think having it sneak up isn't great but people who are ok with it should be able to find it.
Like it or not, I don't think it can be stopped. Especially when anyone can just spin up a capsule or self-host. As soon as any new technology gets invented (especially in the communications space), people will start thinking "how can this be used for sex?".
The legal implications are definitely a concern. I guess moderation is key, but that's not something I have enough experience in to comment.
Due to the limited visual capabilities and non-commercial appeal I would guess that Gemini wont become the porn distribution protocol of choice to deliver it, let alone with some amount of DRM or at least Vimeo-level of download protection.
+1 regarding moderation in combination with letting it grow if people want to bring up sexual or erotic subjects or post such contents. It's a natural part of human life after all.
<NSFW> Smolweb NSFW Content — Maybe it's not what the internet was originally designed for, but NSFW content is definitely one of the driving forces on the "big" web. What NSFW content have you seen or do you predict that you will see on the smolweb? Should it be encouraged or looked down upon and censored? Or neither? As far as what I've seen, there are some BBS (the...
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