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It has nothing to do with your browser. The block is based on your IP.

The rules have changed. See this thread...

Thanks to an appeals court decision I'm relaxing the policy on escorting a little... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/court-upholds-fosta-first-amendment-00105260 Still NOT allowed - “aiding and abetting” prostitution, so... Escort profiles Links to / discussions of escort sites Suggestions someone pay you for sex, or that you want to pay for sex Encouraging someone to pay or get paid for sex. Now ALLOWED... General discussions of safety issues when hiring / being hired for sex Fictional references to escorting Mentioning that you paid or were paid for sex Discussion of why you escort or pay for escorts (done without violating the NOT list) Anything before 2018

I can't imagine a day when NY will be affected. VPNs make things load more slowly. It helps if the VPN POP is near or on the way to the server you're loading.

I've disabled the block for TX since that law isn't in effect yet. BUT come 9/1, it will be put back. In some cases it's unclear whether any age verification solution will actually protect the site legally. The device-based solutions don't exist yet. when they do I'll probably implement them here since thy should be inexpensive. In the meantime paysites are making their tours PG-13 and using paid services to verify paying customers in affected states.

Most of the laws exempt sites with <33% adult content.

The site will be moving to a server outside of Detroit soon, so pick Detroit or Toronto for best performance.

It’s Male Prime, not Male Porn. That’s my “SFW” erotica site. You haven’t given me enough detail to help you. There are no states near NY that are blocked. Which means your ISP is giving you a IP address that was previously (fairly recently) used in a blocked state. The ads on this site barely cover hosting costs, so I don’t pay for the more accurate/up-to-date geoIP service. You do mention “links”. Is the problem only when you click on a link? Which links exactly? But honestly I don’t see how you can access this site, but have a problem with links.

The lack of warning is mostly because I had a stroke 8 weeks ago and am struggling to get even the basics done. The only thing I’m even kinda doing properly right now is therapy. Male Prime has no explicitly pornographic images and no videos, which is why I redirect there. (It’s an erotica site which mentions porn, not a porn site). Serving any content to kids under 13 is legally complicated, hence the warning.

UPDATE JULY 2024… The list of states is growing. It's now (alphabetical order)… Arkansas Idaho Kansas Kentucky (goes into effect July 14, but blocked now) Louisiana (started the trend) Mississippi Nebraska (goes into effect July 18, but blocked now) North Carolina Montana Texas Utah Virginia (a problem because a lot of DC Metro IPs are registered in Northern Virginia) And at least 6 more red states will be blocked in the next year… Alabama, October 1, 2024 Oklahoma, November 1, 2024 Florida, January 1, 2025 South Carolina, January 1, 2025 Tennessee, January 1, 2025 Georgia, July 1, 2025 And yes, other than purple Virginia, ALL red states… If you live near the border of one of these states it can affect you too depending on how your ISP allocates and registers their IP addresses. Two important take-aways… VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!! Your rights are under attack, and voting is the way to fix it. And vote Democratic! I don't care if Biden is showing signs of decomposition - these blocks are the work of Republicans, it's important we get out the vote for the Democrats. I know Biden is FAR FAR from perfect, but you're voting for more than him - you're voting for the judges that will hear the appeals for these laws. If you're financially able, please give money to the Free Speech Coalition - they're the organization who's primarily fighting these laws - both in court and in legislatures. Most recently they got Indiana's law put on hold just a couple of days before it was supposed to go into effect. And now for the original post… -------------- Thanks to the American Taliban passing anti-porn laws, 7 states are now blocked from accessing this site. While the Democrats sadly are voting for these laws, they are the brainchild of the GOP. If you voted Republican - this is on you... https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/

I'll look into the duplicate entry problem this week...

Did a few more changes and now I see 4 people in chat, so looks like it may be working...

still working on it (slowly)

Chat should be working now...

I found the problem a few days ago, but work was slow, and didn't get to work on it yesterday. Will work on it today.

I'm back (kinda). I had a stroke 3 1/2 weeks ago. Sadly, a quick recovery isn't really an option, but I will recover - slowly. I'm trying to learn to use a one-handed keyboard in the meantime, but everything is SLOW... I'll try to at least look into chat this week. But rehab/recovery comes first.

I’m in the hospital. Will set you up after I get out. (After Memorial Day).

I get a 500 Server Error when going to that URL. I thought it was because you had to be logged in, so I created an account - but still an error.

If you're using AI to generate erotic/explicit images I could use your help. No pay, but could be fun and I'm willing to do other things that may be of benefit to you… I tried Midjourney and quit after it told me "shirtless" was a banned word. (SMH…) Then someone pointed me to PornPen.ai but it does pretty crappy images of guys. I tried it three times and this was the best it came up with - just some generic "stud"… It didn't seem capable of anything more creative. If interested - either respond here or DM me.

@ellentonboy - No, not at all. Nostr is not taking over sites. Most site owners (including me) would want to use Nostr to drive traffic to their sites. So "teasers" will be put on Nostr, but the meat of the content stays on the website, not on Nostr. It'll work like Twitter works now. Models have their real content on one of the fans sites, and the have teasers on Twitter to get people to go to the fans site. Here are some examples of what I might post on Nostr: Today's most active topic on Breeding Zone: "Some thread title" + a link to the thread Today's top user on Breeding Zone was SomeUser + a link to their profile page on BZ Some one from Chicago just liked this pic… 🌇 + a link to the page where they can see all the pics from that scene. [If a user marks their sex party page as public and not requiring a login] A 33 y.o. cumdump is taking all loads tonight at 6pm in the Gay Village, Montréal + a link to their party page + a geotag so random people can see it If I know your profile on Nostr I can do the following… All you pigs please give a warm, cummy welcome to @SomeUser. It's his first day on Nostr! He's into #bareback #DOMsub #electro @SomeUser just fav'd this pic… 🌉 + a link to see more Anyone in Montréal need a hole to blow a load in tonight? @SomeUser is taking loads in the Gay Vilage…+ a link to their party page + a geotag so random people can see it The point of that is to give your profile some publicity and build the number of followers you have. Don't want that? Then don't tell me your Nostr ID… Most people won't, but if you trust me with your private key (or give me a "delegated" private key that's good for a period of time), I can do posts to your account and then repost them on my account… Love that gaping hole! 🎆 + a link to a page where they can see more Who wants to breed me tonight in Montréal? #NoLoadRefused! + a link to your party page An intermediate option would be that I monitor your posts for particular hashtags, and if I see one then I repost what you posted. That won't require your private key. Most of that will use data from my new sites, not this one. When you set up profiles on the new sites you'll be able to mark their level of privacy… Public - search engine inclusion OK Public - request search engine to NOT index the page Member's only (people must be signed in to see it) Disabled (if you're taking a break for a while) Basically if you don't want a search engine to index something I'll take similar precautions on Nostr. s3x.social is a separate site which is very minimally integrated with this one (you can login with your BZ user name and password). It will help people get set up on Nostr, find other people to follow, etc. If you don't want to be on Nostr or don't want what you do on Nostr connected to anything on one of my sites then don't sign up with s3x_SOCIAL.

@ErosWired - you're thinking the way I did early on in the process. Take a look at an early version of the vocabulary… https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/315#issuecomment-1507231220 The issue is right now there's just a free-form text field to report things. It's completely useless. BUT you have to keep things really simple for the end-user - so you can't go all the way in the other direction and overwhelm them with options and nuance. If you look at the big picture of 68 and 69 you'll see (semi-)professional moderators can be far more detailed in their reports. There's `degree` which let them rank things within a category defined by the vocabulary. They just need tools that will let them submit with that much detail. The end-user apps will never do that because they need to be simple. In terms of erotica intended to arouse? Some is and some isn't. There's erotica on FB & Insta - I didn't want to lump that in with "pornography". That means in practice we may see people differentiating between softcore porn (meant to arouse) and forms of erotica like burlesque (not meant to arouse). Again with IL - can't have too many categories to maintain a good UX. More regional issues are handled by the `X-MOD` vocabulary. There's no way in hell I could spell all of those out. And as far as "in the eye of the beholder" issues - that's OK. Remember that ultimately these reports will be used by people who think like the moderator (since you pick your own moderators). Relays will just pay attention to the illegal stuff (IL) and categories of interest to their user base. In terms of how I'll use all of that here… I'll let people give their opinions. Then I'll focus on what established members with a good reputation think, average that and if there's not too much variation issue a moderation report that reflects the thinking of our site's community of users.

You'll see file attach icons in all the major client apps. When you use that it sends your pic or video off to an image server which returns a URL that gets embedded in the post. So it's as seamless as using Twitter. It's just not hosted by the same service that does the user interface. I believe Iris only uses Nostr.build for images, while Snort lets you pick your image service and has like 4 or 5 to choose from. When I joined back in February things were more primitive and the client apps hotlinked everything - so YOU loaded all the images directly from the media server. That was a big privacy problem since it meant all those servers had information on you (your IP, browser and device type, what file you were loading, etc.) So the client apps put image proxies in place. Basically the server for the client app goes out and gets the image for you and you get the image from them. So no additional servers have info on you. Thing is, the proxying costs money. Iris is developed by this shy guy Martti who doesn't have a lot of money - he seems to do it because he enjoys it, but he's mentioned that he doesn't know how much longer it will be economically feasible for him to do what he's doing. He cuts costs by only proxying stuff from servers other than Nostr.build. Snort proxies everything but they compress the hell out of it and can make images look like crap. BTW, if Martti stops developing/hosting Iris, Iris is open source with a very generous MIT license. So people can pick it up where he left off and keep going with it - so it's not the end of the world. Now - in terms of where it's safe to upload images… You can upload SFW image anywhere. That's completely fine. The worst that will happen is the media server could go out of business at some point and you'd have a missing pics on your old posts. Nostr.build (which is what Iris uses and is an option in Snort) allows x-rated content for now. I had a conversation with the guy behind Nostr.build and explained the legalities of his business. He ignored EVERYTHING I told him. I told him he loses Section 230 protections if he moderates all the content on his site (rather than just responding to reports of problems), but he continues to moderate every image. I told him he's in for a world of hurt if he allows adult content and doesn't verify that there is consent and people are of legal age - but he doesn't do those checks and allows adult. He also seems to think that he can just tell if someone is underage. SMH… I've warned him. So bottom line if you upload adult content to Nostr.build it will be tagged as adult and the day may come when he just deletes all the adult stuff. But for now, it's an OK interim solution as you play around and get to know the platform and wait for me to have better options.

Good question… I've been thinking a lot about censorship vs content moderation recently… Let me reframe your question… For starters governments absolutely do censor what's on the relays in their countries. I can't have anything related to prostitution on my relay because my relay is in the US. That's censorship. Anyone who pulls content from my relay is being censored - not so much by me as by the US government. So censorship absolutely exists on Nostr. Which is why they say it's only censorship-resistant. But whether you see something or not is also about "content moderation"… A lot of people see all content moderation as censorship. But censorship is something that's a top-down exercise of power - some person, organization, or government is limiting what you can do or see in a way that's not OK with you. But people sometimes agree to limitations without any coercion. That's not censorship because no one is forcing anyone else to do something. As I mentioned above I've been working on how to implement content moderation in Nostr. My first proposal had mixed reviews, so I spent the weekend rethinking things. The goal is bottom-up content moderation that's censorship-free (because no one is forcing anyone to do anything). You can read more about my approach here. There absolutely is, and absolutely will continue to be content moderation on Nostr. It will just be more organic. If I get my way you'll be able to choose who moderates your feed. In the meantime most of the client apps work on the principle that you don't see anything unless it was posted by someone you follow, or someone followed by people you follow (xN). Assuming you don't follow people who are into illegal stuff, you shouldn't see anything illegal. But content moderation and filtering will improve drastically in the coming months…

You do have your NIP-05 set up correctly. Notice the green text. Iris is pretty aggressive about caching NIP-05 addresses, so it may take a while for you to see it on your profile. I did forget a step in the list above. You need to click "Save Relays Publicly" after adding the relays. I'm not seeing any relays listed in your profile data, so doesn't seem you've done that step. It's easy to find people by npub in Iris - just paste the npub into the search bar at the top of the page. I think Iris is pretty good at being able to find people by their NIP-05 addresses as well (except when it's a site being searched for).