Seeing some folks complain about an influx of Only Fans accounts here.
Reminder that sex work is real work and sex workers should be respected!
I get if folks don't want to see that kind of content, but shaming them off fedi ain't it. Graciously teaching them about hashtags and content warnings (and learning to use your own content filtering tools) is the community way.
Eta. Spam bot accounts are not the same thing. So don't call them the same thing!
Expanding: if you want to complain about accounts that are clearly spam bots masquerading as only fans accounts... Do that. Complain about the scam, and the bots.
Just blanket calling those accounts Only Fans accounts suggests a disrespect for actual sex workers trying to make a living imho.
The language we use when we talk about things is important and can subconsciously have impact on thinking, both for ourselves and for society as a whole.
@MsHearthWitch As someone who has been tracking and reporting on various kinds of censorship (using the word in its loosest sense) of adult materials on social media platforms for the last 15 years under the hashtag #pornocalypse, I agree with you wholeheartedly because it is EXTREMELY common for every kind of adult content and topic (and also LGBTQ+ discussion of every sort) to be suppressed as "spam". Platforms and people are SUPER quick to use that word about stuff they don't like.
@ErosBlog Oh yeah. I might have just been shooting the shit on a topic. But also it comes from being a person who spends a lot of time online, thinks hard about a lot of stuff and observes trends over the years.
The reaction to calling those sorts of accounts spam or scams points to an underlying issue/disrespect with that sort of content... and often other less content as well. Basically anything other than the puritanical cis/straight experience.
@MsHearthWitch Yup yup yup, you know it!
@ErosBlog I'm a tired old Terminally Online queer lady with a trans adult child. This ain't my first rodeo ;)
I've been really heartened to see the positive reception my post has gotten. With only a very small handful of people having dumbass takes.
@MsHearthWitch Whereas I'm just another cishet white dude, but "tired, old, and terminally online" puts us in adjacent tribes if not the same one. 
And somehow writing a sex blog with a sex-positive editorial stance for a quarter of a century -- even if it does have an unapologetic male gaze most of the time -- rubbed off enough of the remaining rough edges to leave me on the radical fringes of any issue that touches on sexual liberty, human dignity, and self-determination.
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@ErosBlog @MsHearthWitch I wonder if people tend to just react to any kind of advertisement as spam. You kind of have to stop yourself and deliberately make a distinction between an individual artist or model promoting themselves and a company that vomits ads everywhere.
With people you can gently talk to them if they’re overdoing it. Offer advice on useful hashtags.
Companies aren’t good at listening. Too much automation between them and their “audience”
@humbird0 @MsHearthWitch Humbird, depending on which waves of the early internet you were here for, absolutely. I remember when *any* commercial posting on UseNet was cause for outrage, and any email sent with commercial intent would generate stern return mail to abuse at domain dot whateverorg. But standards have changed. I built a business on the commercial web, and then saw it strangled almost to death by the rise of #pornocalypse social media platforms and porn-hostile search engines.
@humbird0 @MsHearthWitch I am now perfectly sanguine about any small business advertising on social media, as long as they speak in a human voice and at a human cadence, tempo, and frequency. I also won't follow them unless they have interesting noncommercial stuff to say in addition.