Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.

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Their cloud does not forbid adult content either, but again, data on servers you don't control can never be truly safe.

A reminder that hosting content on clouds you don't control can never be entirely safe.

GitHub is now enforcing their policies against adult content:

New laws to target online abuse and pornography Protection for women and girls boosted with new amendments on online abuse and pornography tabled to the Crime & Policing Bill

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This is insanity.
Depicting a character being strangled in a movie or TV-show is a-okay.
But if that character is naked then suddenly it's illegal?

This amendment makes no distinctions between fiction and reality.

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The fact that artists constantly have to worry about the how platforms will judge the morality of their fictional drawings is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

If artists could host content on their own platform and still be discoverable, then it would stop this chilling effect caused by draconian terms.

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This issue is too important for us to sit around and do nothing! As such, we have released an updated roadmap of our development plans.

Development will be slower, but we will continue to build a community and - when it is ready - we will be able to show the world exactly how WhyCloud can help.

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us in our campaign thus far!

Unfortunately, it does not seem like we will meet the goal that would have allowed us to dedicate a full amount of time to developing WhyCloud.

However...

We are adult game devs ourselves, and our only agenda is to work towards creating a world where anyone can create fearlessly.

We are open to any ideas or feedback if you want to discuss what you think the best feasible solution would be.

That is why we want to develop a *tool* to help creators get set up on their own platform. That is the only way that creators can even have a choice of the alternatives out there. Whether it be bank to bank payments like ACH, high risk processing, or crypto, we want creators to have a choice.

We understand that Steam was not given much choice. Even if Steam tried to process adult games only with cryptocurrency, payment processors would still demand that they be censored.

The only solution, the one we want to help enable, is for people to stop relying solely on centralized platforms.

We noticed there has been some confusion over what WhyCloud is and how it helps creators to resist censorship, so we made some videos to help explain it!

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If age-verification is going to be required by law, it should be free, open-source, and most importantly CLIENT-based so that nobody ever gets access to sensitive user data. Go.cam is one such solution.

WhyCloud can help creators configure this if they so choose.

Age verification laws silence creators into submission at the risk of being sued. Even worse, the age verification lobby is pushing for expensive and invasive always-active age verification, and legislation such as Tennessee's age-verification bill requiring re-validation every hour support this.

Whether you are a creator, a supporter, or a developer - this is a place where we can answer questions, discuss censorship, self-hosting, and what we can do to protect creators!

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Only united can we stand against the wave of creative censorship that has been sweeping over the internet.

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Most people don't, which is why we want to make it easy for you to store your data with a host you can trust (or your own server), the choice should be yours!

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Have YOU read the terms of the platforms you use?

It's not just a story, we know of a game developer who had their entire corporate Google account nuked overnight - simply for sharing nude artistic references.

No recovery, no chance to appeal. Even their email was gone.

It's devastating to see creatives forced to censor the content they are passionate about creating simply to keep the lights on.

Unless we work together and support a decentralized solution such as WhyCloud, we WILL see more creators being forced into this position.

In just 2 days we've already raised almost 12% of our goal!

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A world where creators don't need to worry about their life's work being deleted, where creators don't need to live in fear that their next image will trip the censors.

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Every little bit helps and if we work together, we can reach our goal to help make a world where we can create without fear!
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Only together can we cloud out the eye of censorship and defend our right to create without fear!

With WhyCloud, it will be impossible for the livelihoods of creators to be upended simply because card networks decided to turn their gaze upon a single, centralized platform.

We don't do the hosting - we are building a tool to enable anyone to be able to host themselves!

Whether it be with a trusted cloud host or on your own server, WhyCloud will make it easy to spin up your own site and accept payments - standard, high-risk, ACH, or Crypto. YOU get to choose.

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It's time we fight back against censorship from payment processers.

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Steam’s Early Access just got stricter — and adult games are the target Quiet policy changes mean some story‑driven titles will never make it to Early Access, as payment processor influence is raising questions about who decides what content is allowed.

What began with Steam being initially willing to platform "anything legal" has slowly tightened into making adult game developers second-class citizens.

No matter how well-meaning centralized platforms may be, their very nature inevitably makes them vulnerable to censorship.
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Online censorship continues to be a threat to creative freedom.

The only way to avoid these draconian policies is to host your own Personal Data Server, which only those with technical knowledge can do.

Though not part of our MVP, WhyCloud lays the foundation to enable anyone to host themselves.

With WhyCloud, you will be able to spin up a second site and accept payments through it with only a few clicks of a button!

No more will this solution only be available to those with technical know-how!