Why Nostr is great for the porn industry
The problem…
If you're in the porn industry chances are you've seen something like this…
That's just life in the porn industry - right? No - actually it doesn't have to be like that at all…
The biggest problem with current social media is that some corporation determines what you can and can't post - and then they moderate things inconsistently - and more often than not, they assume the worst about us. Well, with Nostr there's no corporation running it, and there's no corporation setting the rules or moderating it.
You may have tried Mastodon which makes a big deal of the fact that there isn't a big corporation in charge of everything - but there's still someone controlling each of the various "federated instances". As a result, the moderation on Mastodon can be just as bad or worse than the corporate sites. And when the instances don't get along they often refuse to talk to each other - which limits what you can see and who can see your posts. And good luck taking your profile from one Mastodon instance to another - apparently that can be hit or miss.
Well, with Nostr - no one group controls where your data is stored or what's shown in your feed. If you want a feed filled with groups that hate each other - you can do that. And only you control your account. You can take it anywhere - pretty much instantly. Hell, you can even be logged into your account in multiple places at the same time.
Nostr seems to be openly sex-worker friendly
In the video below the guy on the left (Ben Arc), who is one of the very earliest developers of Nostr and the owner of nostr.com, talks about how they were thinking of business cases for Nostr back when it started and sex work came up. Notice how he simply seems to start with the idea that prostitution is a completely legit business and goes on to identify that the core issue in that business is the balance between the need for privacy and the need for reputation (an astute observation) - and he sees ways Nostr can help with that.
The person on the left (with the purple hair) is "Rabble" (they/them) - one of the co-founders of Twitter. Rabble's had a team of folks working on a distributed social media app for a while and they're now basically starting over, and using what they learned to build a Nostr client - nos.social. I've heard Rabble mention Nostr meeting the needs of sex workers publicly more than once, and I've privately discussed with them how the adult community and LGBTQ community could benefit from Nostr.
In addition, I've heard through the grapevine that another person who's in the core group of developers working on Nostr has friends who are sex workers and totally gets the issues our industry faces. I won't say everyone working on Nostr is sex work friendly, but enough are that it should be a pretty safe space for people in the porn industry.
Sex workers actually have the same issues as other Nostr users
If you listen to this panel of women describe why they use and like Nostr I think you'll find a lot of the issues they're talking about are the same issues that sex workers (and others in the adult industry) have when it comes to social media.
Bottom line - the reasons why some of the early adopters of Nostr love Nostr is because it solves many of the same problems that we face with corporate-owned social media. If it works for them, it can work for us.
Community
What's mising right now is the actual porn community. But that's just a matter of getting people to try it out, understand it, and then spread the word. We have a lot of "influencers" in our industry. We can do this. I mean is someone really an influencer if they can't influence their followers to follow them somewhere else?