Following up on this, actual sex workers - as opposed to people like us "amateurs" who have sex as a hobby or vocation, I suppose
- have a new option after SESTA/FOSTA.
XBIZ reports about a new service called "Switter" (e.g., Sex Worker Twitter) which has debuted:
Quote:
Assembly Four, a partially anonymous Australian company making tech for SWers, teamed up with SWer and SAAS marketer Lola Hunt to create Switter “as a direct response to [the] changes” caused by SESTA/FOSTA.
The social media of site has been exploding, growing by over 6,000 users this week to a total over 8,000 members, many of whom are “tooting” (sending status updates) from the U.S. The community is known as an “instance” of the open source social network Mastodon, making it basically one of a network of Twitter-like message boards that can communicate with one another.
Hunt explained to XBIZ that the SESTA/ FOSTA legislation “not only impacts the sex worker community but [also affects] anyone who has privacy and censorship concerns.”
Switter does its best to address these privacy concerns, with a server in Australia (where sex work is legal) and an Austrian domain name. Mastodon Founder and Developer Eugen Rochko told XBIZ, “Twitter, Reddit and other sites are starting to ban sex workers from their platforms, while Switter is not affected by [the legislation]” because it is not U.S.-based.
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It's a big world out there, and of course
RENTMENT, probably the largest western gay escort site, is based in Europe - again not subject to SESTA/FOSTA.
I'm sure that regardless of Craiglist's decision
non-sex-worker personal ads will continue in the US. We here at CFS will do our part to make it so.
Bob S. ~ Manager/Editor