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[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yes, and what do you think those distribution sites do in exchange of distributing your content? Perhaps extracting surplus value from the profit they generate for housing sex worker's videos? It's literally the thing I'm talking about - the website is acting as a pimp in this case.

If you mean self-hosting or starting a small business selling your "sex work" on sites that you own, then that would bypass this exact point. However, that's pretty much impossible given two things:

  1. How the fuck are you going to get discovered by people not aware of who you are
  2. Who the hell would visit a separate site entirely just for one porn star when a gazillion centralized alternatives that already contain thousands of videos exist

It's a non-solution, and there is absolutely a reason why the biggest porn stars out there just use onlyfans or phub or whatever to host their content, even if it means getting exploited as a result.