The itch.io thing is just a responsibility-laundered ban on porn. If you're forcing porn onto external payment processors which uniformly ban porn, you are banning porn. Intensely disappointed in this decision.
I really can't overstate how crushing this is on an emotional level. Itch was pretty much the last decent online storefront for anything digital at all, and being privately-owned and not VC-funded meant that it could in principle choose not to arbitrarily issue bans based on managerial profit/loss metrics. Seeing it go down that road even so just makes it so, so clear how little room there is for anything good in this capitalist hellscape.
At least we've got Cohost, which is unambiguous that it will always support porn to the absolute extent of its legal ability to do so.
So apparently the official line is effectively "porn was always banned1, because the itch.io TOS said that sellers have to comply with all payment processor TOSes and they all ban porn", and as such this is a switch from never enforcing that part of the TOS to enforcing it in an opaque and semi-random way. Which doesn't really seem any better, but I guess is the only way they see to stay in the good graces of any payment processors.
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Which is odd considering they have a dedicated adult content tag.
