It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to shut down Switter as it has become impossible to sustain under the weight of misguided, ill-informed, and harmful legislation from around the world. Please see our public statement more information:
Before we go, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years; it has meant the world to us. We are incredibly proud of everyone who rallied around Switter and helped push the topic of Sex Workers rights further into the mainstream.✨☂️✨
Hey Switterverse!
Here is the new Code of Conduct for Switter. In short:
- No reviews
- No affiliate links
- No posting on behalf of any other party without consent.
- No explicit language or acronyms to refer to specific sexual services within listings
With over 240,00 users, Switter celebrates it's first anniversary. 🎉 To everyone who has supported and helped us stay afloat, thank you!
Together our solidarity is stronger than their hate - join us in pouring one for Switter ✨
It's been a month since Switter launched! Here are some big numbers:
* 55,974 users
* 491,180 toots
* 10,425 listings
* 569,985 listing searches
* ~12TB of bandwidth^
* ~148 million requests^
* 340,625 emails sent
^ Data extrapolated cause no access to Cloudflare data
Hey folks, we've made the decision to close down our sign-ups for a bit while we try and get a hold of spam.
SW who are wanting to join, e-mail us and we'll send you an invite 💜
If you would like a little more information as to why we are not supporting reviews and possibly harbouring review culture - please see the below amazing post by
@Ms_Sophia_Rose
It is a great summary of review culture.
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While we’re sad to say goodbye, we are eager to preserve your farewells. We’ll be collecting posts under the hashtag
#FarewellSwitter
on Twitter/Mastodon to display on the memorial site. ☂️✨
We've just hit 100k users over on Switter!
@Assembly_Four
have some super exciting news we'll be announcing over there in a few days. Stay tuned Switthearts!
We are aware that there were many mixed feelings around reviews. Based on the feedback from workers on Switter and from a legal standpoint, we are not willing to facilitate reviews on Switter. If you would like to leave reviews there are other platforms for use. CONTINUED
Hey Swithearts! We will be updating our Code of Conduct soon but wanted your feedback before we do.
Our main focus is changing the rules around Reviews, Listings and Interacting as a Company on Switter. Feedback: switter
@assemblyfour
.com
Due to threat of legal action we have removed the posts about a third party site that shall not be named.
We still stand by your rights as s a user.
It's your data, consent matters.
It’s been a wild ride but the community feels stronger and more united than ever before. We’ve put a little bit together about the journey so far and beyond.
Hey Swithearts, we're a growing platform and want to make sure that everyone has a good experience - what rules would you like to see implemented? You can see our current rules here
Hey folks, we've been experiencing issues due to high load - we're going into maintenance mode for 20 minutes while we throw some more compute power at it.
brb!
In the attempt to send you lovely folks a new newsletter, a few of you may have received our old newsletter.
Oops. You'll be hearing from us shortly? 💚
Many of you have asked if we were taking donations and today we’re happy to announce that we are accepting donations for the ongoing costs of Switter! You can donate via Liberapay and Patreon. Here's a run down:
To donate see comments:
Switter will be undergoing maintenance tomorrow from 5:30pm PDT / 8:30pm EDT and will hopefully be completed by 11pm PDT / 2am EDT for a major upgrade.
✨We’ll have a new piece from
@GeorgieWolf
in a few days, until then check out the chat she had to Nelly Uhlenkott an Australian psychotherapist, counsellor about the art of saying no to emotionally attached clients.✨
The attack appears to be over for now. A 36 second sample of the attack had us being hit by 2737 IP addresses, peaking at 15,000 packets a second and 8MiB/s.
Hey Swithearts, we’re going to be upgrading our capacity today from 4-5PM (UTC +10)
The site will be temporarily unavailable during this time. We’ll post an update when we’ve completed the upgrade.
Switter is 👌🏻
We were running into issues scaling the site because of one the servers in our cluster playing silly buggers - just needed to be whipped into shape
We had an issue with upgrading our database server to something a bit larger, we'll be keeping an eye on it and making small tweaks over the next few hours!
We're experiencing some issues with one of our providers right now and you maybe having issues accessing Switter. We’ll provide another update in 12 hours if not resolved
Sex workers deserve the same services and rights as anyone else, Tryst is here to raise the bar. Run and developed by sex workers and technologists, we've put together an advertising platform which puts escorts first.
Taking beta testers now :)
Federal court says Homeland Security agents can search electronic devices of passengers waiting to board international flights without a search warrant and without "any sort of individualized suspicion."
We think we’ve isolated the issue to a bug in some of the software that we use to help run the servers of Switter.
We’ll give another update at 6:30AM AEST. Access will be intermittent.
@Ms_Sophia_Rose
Awesome! Taken on board :) Reviews were a rumor that got WAYYY out of hand but we'll be taking a stance against that. Another review site is not what we want. Thanks Sophia! If you have anymore, send the on through.
Watch as
@JinxLierre
—an anarchist sex worker—goes to Washington—to fight FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance. Also featuring
@LiaraRoux
.