Plea for action from Australians copied from Bsky:

If any fellow Aussies think its inappropriate for a registered Australian charity (Collective Shout) to bully an indie website (Itch) into reviewing all NSWF (+ random other) content, and to pretend 'lobbying' is 'charity', here's where you can report misuse of their charity status: https://www.acnc.gov.au/

You're looking for the Raise a concern menu. The option is Raise a concern about a charity.

According to the screenshot, the ABN is 30162159097. As I'm not an Australian, I haven't gone through the process myself.

source: https://bsky.app/profile/eliseswritings.bsky.social/post/3lursey6mqc26

#Austraila#ItchIo#Itch#CollectiveShout

Has your game been delisted? If so, submit it to loop-io.dev to let people access it! It won't solve the issues of payments being frozen, but it's a start.

https://loop-io.dev

EDIT: have reached enough people & it's in the queue, thanks for the help! Will share more when it's through that phase.

Regarding the recent itch.io attack on queer & NSFW content (payment processors pressuring them into delisting large amounts of that stuff).

If you're UK-based or a UK citizen, I've prepared a petition re processors taking it upon themselves to suppress legal content sold by clients. I need a few supporters to get it into the review queue.

#GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt #Itch

Rip your Itch.io library (owned and otherwise) with itch-dl : https://github.com/DragoonAethis/itch-dl

#itchio #visa #mastercard #preservation #archive #archival #itch

Itch has been forced to purge adult content and our first issue has been caught up in it. In the case of zines, that looks as though that takes the form of removal from search results, rather than full delisting.

It looks like you can still download it for free and tip us for copies, so do that while you still can, I guess.
https://voidkvlt.itch.io/how-to-interact-with-transmasculine-people-without-being-fucking-transphobic-vol

#AdultContentPurge #itch #zines #censorship #puritanism

Heads up about a journalist trying to get in contact with affected trans authors regarding the itch.io horse shit:

https://bsky.app/profile/thetransfemininereview.com/post/3luogyd7z4k2i

🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors.

TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages.

I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

#itch #itchio