AUSTIN, Texas – YNOT Group has announced the launch of the company’s own Mastodon server at YNOTNetwork.com, a move made to “assure the availability and reliability of an adult-friendly social media platform for use by the industry,” according to YNOT CEO and co-owner Connor Young.
“While we all want to keep using Twitter and will continue to do so as long as we can, we’re growing increasingly concerned about the instability around Twitter and want to ensure there are other viable options available to the adult industry,” Young said. “With Mastodon’s decentralized network, we’re able to set up and host our own server, wherein we get to set some of the rules – meaning that people won’t be suddenly and mysteriously banned, shadow-banned or otherwise de-platformed simply for posting legal adult material.”
The vagaries of Twitter’s content policies has been on full display of late, as exemplified by the as-yet unexplained removal of the account for adult industry mental health nonprofit Pineapple Support. The banning of Pineapple Support from Twitter was decried by representatives of adult trade organizations like the Free Speech Coalition and the Adult Performance Artists Guild, who lamented the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of an important source of support and mental health assistance from one of the world’s largest social media platforms.
“Having a server that’s moderated by a trusted adult industry company like YNOT presents a big advantage to everyone in the industry,” Young noted. “It’s ideal for fans, models, and industry professionals alike – and we invite everyone who appreciates and supports the adult industry to sign up.”
With Mastodon, each server can see every other server on the network and users of any server can reach and follow the users on another server, unless one server specifically blocks another.
Given Twitter’s recent instability – both in terms of the platform’s policies and performance issues exacerbated by the massive reduction in support staff undertaken since the site was purchased by its mercurial new owner, Elon Musk – Young said it makes sense for members of the adult industry to start “investing time in a backup platform that still has reach to fans and the masses, but which can provide some stability.”
“Twitter has been great for the adult industry, and hopefully it will continue to be such,” Young said. “But with all the changes that have been taking place there and the tendency of its current management to act precipitously in ways that greatly impact its users, the time has come for the industry to start growing and nurturing an audience elsewhere, and to proactively establish something more stable, sustainable and receptive to the needs of people in this unique industry.”
For more information and to establish an account on YNOT’s new Mastodon server, go to www.YNOTNetwork.com.
