It is by most definitions I can find. Why would being a "subscription based business" exclude it from that? Most social media sites are companies and monetization by subscriptions with revenue sharing is far from rare.
Can I/you pay the models on OnlyFans to have sex with them? No.
Then it's not prostitution. Porn stars are not prostitutes either. Sex work doesn't make you a prostitute. That's a very specific line of work and this ain't it.
Oh if you're confused about what I mean it immediately places people looking for a side gig in a position to make less money than they expect and get solicited for prostitution while exposing themselves online in a way that causes big issues in other careers
It is lmao only the tip top percentile makes any money, and guess what? Literally everyone who subscribes is begging for meetups and waving $1000. They're all psychos with no sense of how easy it would be to fuck if they let go of their need to fuck with other people
The policy states that employees should not communicate online in a manner that’s “unprofessional” or that would “significantly and adversely impact [their] work-related reputation.”
so·cial me·di·a
websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
It absolutely meets the media part of things, and while it’s not a place for just casual “socializing” you’re still communicating with others. It’s not what we’d first think of as social media, but then again people somehow think lemmy isn’t social media.