Big big risk here having spent last 6 years working for the largest provider of adult live porn cams, FOSS isn’t the issue but regulation and safety and infrastructure to ensure everyone participating is a consenting adult and not being trafficked or abused is a huge problem around the world. I may incur downvotes for this opinion, but this is a space where it SHOULD be regulated with a lot of checks and balances. You don’t want to accidentally come across CSAM and have that cached in your temp files for so many reasons.

I would have thought there should be several hurdles for a FederatedFans type site: money being one, legality being another and content control a third. How do you ensure your content is only showed to paying members once it's been federated?

However Mitra seems to exist, though I have no further info about it as I literally only found it just now.

Technology isn't the hard part of OF. Money and moderation are. Most of the big payment suppliers like PayPal and credit card companies are vary about porn or outright ban it. So you need a partner who will take the money from customers and give it to you. And then you might need a different (or same) partner to give the money to the content creators.

And all the time you have to make sure that none of the creators are hosting illegal material or something that is not allowed by the money transfer providers.

But from the point of view of the creators all the money handling is the biggest service OF provides.

You want to see things or post things?

I don't think there is a federated alternative but there are alternatives that are at least marginally less shitty, if that helps

on another forum they discuss how to do it on reddit still, you do have to pay up for services used to evade bans(PROXIES, anti-detection browsers, phones, accounts). i havnt checked it for other sites. i dont know if fediverse has it.

Federation in itself solves the decentralisation problem, but it doesn’t magically solve payments, legal risk, content monetisation or moderation. If you want an OnlyFans‐style creator-platform in the fediverse, you’ll still need to solve the business and regulatory model — and for adult content that barrier is especially steep