Itch.io just banned lgbt content at the reauest of payment providers. It is now, short of finding them and handing them food, impossible to pay the last group of artists i was giving money to, because the mechanisms of payment have decided they cannot be paid.

But I still want the stuff they've made, their back catalogues, etc.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Itch.io just banned lgbt content at the reauest of payment providers

Do you have a source on this? Everything I have read from them so far about the news today makes this sound like a temporary problem that was out of their control.

This is a time critical moment for itch.io. The situation developed rapidly, and we had to act urgently to protect the platform’s core payment infrastructure. Unfortunately, this meant it was not realistic to provide creators with advance notice before making this change. We know this is not ideal, and we apologize for the abruptness of this change.

We are currently conducting a comprehensive audit of content to ensure we can meet the requirements of our payment processors. Pages will remain deindexed as we complete our review. Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.

https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

I'm pretty confident they will get this sorted out. It doesn't seem like they have any intention of banning nsfw content.

Edit: I'm responding here about NSFW content because I was confused. I don't think Itch actually ever banned queer/LGBTQ content in any way. The recent drama has been over NSFW content specifically so I assumed OP was specifically taking about NSFW queer content.

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They mention deindexing from browse and search. I understand this to mean you can still visit and buy the products, and list the publisher's titles on their publisher's page.

That's far from "banning". And doesn't prevent the supporting creators and browsing their catalog - the use-case OP described.

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