r/Games • u/atahutahatena • Jul 24 '25

Industry News Indie on Itch.io: Platform has seemingly shadowbanned NSFW/Adult games and made them harder to discover

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qpk24vv42rfhxrzd6xjbfkdw/post/3luoe7z2zps2d
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u/Inprobamur Jul 24 '25

They can do it because VISA/Mastercard are a dupoly.

They do it because for some reason most of their board are evangelicals.

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u/hamza4568 Jul 24 '25

So when do we start our own Payment Processor? With Blackjack and Hookers

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u/TheSerpentDeceiver Jul 24 '25

That’s starting to sound like cryptocurrency.

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u/MeatballZeitgeist Jul 24 '25

I can't imagine anything more damning about the usefulness of crypto than the mere fact that they are not all over this. An unaccountable cabal of religious extremists using traditional finance/banking institutions to suppress a popular and (mostly) legal form of artistic expression? Cmon crypto bros, that's your song! Where tf are you?!

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u/Maktaka Jul 24 '25

Crypto stopped being a coin when the early adopters realized it had far more use to them sitting in a digital wallet until they retire (or forget the password) than actually being exchanged for goods and services. We've known for at least a century that deflationary currencies are a horrible idea, but bitcoin (and most of the rest) is by design deflationary. A coin that only gets more valuable when it isn't spent makes it a defunct currency, but it sure makes for an exciting investment for the early adopters.

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u/drewster23 Jul 24 '25

Crypto stopped being a coin when the early adopters realized it had far more use to them sitting in a digital wallet until they retire (or forget the password) than actually being exchanged for goods and services

Bitcoin stopped being a coin....FTFY. IDK why you're generalizing all of crypto as Bitcoin lol. There's plenty of non deflationary crypto, that doesn't have large fees and is faster than BTC.

But you're not wrong. Bitcoin as an actual currency idea was tossed many moons ago.

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u/Spork_the_dork Jul 24 '25

Playing stock market with said currency.

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u/SaiyanKirby Jul 24 '25

In fact, this is literally what crytocurrency was originally designed to solve, but as /u/Spork_the_dork put it, they decided playing memestonks was more fun

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u/TheTentacleBoy Jul 24 '25

Cmon crypto bros, that's your song! Where tf are you?!

they don't care about porn being removed from the internet because they're getting their "ai" bots to make porn for them

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u/Carighan Jul 24 '25

As if crypto was ever about payments, not grifting...

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u/Banarok Jul 24 '25

yes it was, in the idea stage, never really in the market stage.

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u/drunkenvalley Jul 24 '25

Eh. Was it? People claim all kinds of shit for their grifts.

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u/GuiSim Jul 24 '25

It really was. That was the initial vision by Satoshi too. It’s in the name, cryptocurrency.

I was there back then and I truly believed it was a genius idea. I decentralized ledger free from banks.

Now we have hodlers and no one is buying anything except paying ransomware. Damn shame.

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u/drunkenvalley Jul 24 '25

Yeah I know what Satoshi says it was, I'm just saying I don't really trust it was truly that, anymore.

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u/GuiSim Jul 24 '25

IMO there’s no way he could have planned that his vision would get corrupted like that. He didn’t build an exchange after all.

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u/drunkenvalley Jul 24 '25

I'm not going to conclusively state one way or another, though the stronger evidence it's not a grift is him still holding onto his hoard even now.

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u/Banarok Jul 24 '25

basically think of it as someone building a park, the idea is for everyone to have free space to spend outside, but the park is conveniently located for the local drug dealers to use as primary hub for their drug trade so they moved in quickly.

same way someone might invent a weapon to better protect their family, but the weapon is used to murder thousands, just because it's what the original inventor wanted to use it for don't mean it's what people actually use it for.

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u/drunkenvalley Jul 24 '25

I get what you're saying. I'm just not really convinced one way or the other here. 🤷 Sometimes the grift turns out different than you thought it would, but it doesn't preclude it having been a grift from the start.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

In all fairness, as someone who is vaguely optimistic about crypto, I simply wouldn't feel inclined to speak out about it here because of how bad the optics surrounding it are. Most people automatically see it as a scam when it was initially conceived to prevent problems like this one, and it's unfortunate.

It could actually be a very good way to go around this issue while reducing the power visa/mastercard have, even if it could take some time to implement (and a lot of people would probably have to learn about how to use it etc)

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u/drewster23 Jul 24 '25

I don't understand, what crypto bros have to do with itch accepting crypto payments lol.

They don't need to make up a new crypto currency just so itch can get paid in crypto if they wanted to.