AVN Stars discontinues monetization features due to banking discrimination
AVN Stars will stop paying sex workers for their content starting Jan. 1
The company announced this week that monetization will no longer be available after December 31 due to “banking discrimination.”
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AVN Stars announced on Wednesday that it would end monetized content on the site, citing banking discrimination.
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thanks Maria! A little bird tells me the epilogue in my piece describes exactly what happened (someone at bsky allegedly read my article and increased their rate limit). I have a name, I need to see if they're willing to go on the record. So even the fix allegedly didn't come from W engineers LOOOL
"What has really happened is VC built the wrong AI, you’ll pay a high price for this error with your pension, and nobody will go to jail." x.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/2073821… via @cabernet.bsky.social
"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/
Bridging on a budget
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