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♠️ Critical Nexus ✊🏿 reddthat.com PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com
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I've been banned from reddit, lemmy, and now piefed for posting ai generated content with a bot. I want to have a platform where I can send all the automated ai generated content I want, and do self promotion. What's the simplest, cheapest way to have a platform like that? I would like to complain about internet censorship due to surveillance capitalism, but it would be disingenuous when every corner of the internet does the same thing.

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

why not ask an AI

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kindnesskills literature.cafe kindnesskills@literature.cafe
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#3 · Quote Reply

Start a blog, maybe?

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♠️ Critical Nexus ✊🏿 reddthat.com PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-09-23
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

Start a blog, maybe?

Duh, that's practically what I'm asking for how to I ask a blog that isn't going be taken down because someone disagrees? Is there an existing platform that isn't going to take it down or do I have to build my own from scratch and reinvent the wheel?

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bloogoose lemmy.zip bloogoose@lemmy.zip
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kindnesskills literature.cafe kindnesskills@literature.cafe
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Duh, that's practically what I'm asking for how to I ask a blog that isn't going be taken down because someone disagrees? Is there an existing platform that isn't going to take it down or do I have to build my own from scratch and reinvent the wheel?

WordPress is probably the most well known blog hosting platform. Start there.

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♠️ Critical Nexus ✊🏿 reddthat.com PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-09-23
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The tech is neutral. Is capitalist relations of production that weaponize it for profit and class control.

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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lots of people are

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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-04
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WordPress is probably the most well known blog hosting platform. Start there.

Ghost is also good.

Just don't expect to attract an audience -- just because the Web hosting company doesn't block it doesn't mean anyone will want to consume it.

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bloogoose lemmy.zip bloogoose@lemmy.zip
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The tech is neutral. Is capitalist relations of production that weaponize it for profit and class control.
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bloogoose lemmy.zip bloogoose@lemmy.zip
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lots of people are
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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

Free website hosting you can try:

Please don't link to your future blog slop content on the threadiverse

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
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Free website hosting you can try: https://www.infinityfree.com/ https://www.wix.com/start/blog Please don't link to your future blog slop content on the threadiverse

Wix is an Israeli company

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
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Wait… You’re aware?

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
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what tech?

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jet hackertalks.com jet@hackertalks.com
Joined: 2023-07-06
#16 · Quote Reply

Run your own Lemmy instance or Mastodon instance. You can say whatever you want, it's absolute freedom of speech. People don't have to listen to you, and many people may defederate, but that's their choice

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wizardbeard lemmy.dbzer0.com wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-16
#17 · (edited) Quote Reply

You could host your own Lemmy instance. Other instances could defederate from you, but they couldn't stop you from posting whatever you wanted on your own instance.

Any option to prevent others from taking something you want to post online down is going to require you to run or host it yourself. But then you're still beholden to the DNS company, hosting company, and the payment processor for how you pay for it all.

There are apparently ways to pay for your hosting through anonymous crypto, and ways to route the connection between your hardware and the open Internet in private ways, and even private DNS services.

Ultimately, this all depends on what your risk profile is, how what you want to post runs foul of the rules elsewhere, how much you're willing to spend on this, etc.

You could look into the tech stack and services other controversial sites are relying on, like what PirateBay or 4chan use.

"How private?" "How censorship resistant?"

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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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Wix is an Israeli company

Damn, i did not realize.

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Tolookah discuss.tchncs.de Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-12
#19 · Quote Reply

what tech?

The tech with the power

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
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The tech with the power

alright, you're being so vague you obviously have nothing to say

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Bo7a piefed.ca Bo7a@piefed.ca
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The tech with the power

The power of VooDoo!

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insufferableninja sh.itjust.works imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works
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alright, you're being so vague you obviously have nothing to say

It's a reference to the 80s movie The Labyrinth

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Bo7a piefed.ca Bo7a@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-10
#23 · Quote Reply

It's a reference to the 80s movie The Labyrinth

Sung by... and this makes the hobgoblin username thing even more amazing... The Goblin King, David bowie.

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
#24 · Quote Reply

Ok there's enough samphappalāpā in this thread let me try a real answer.

You're not looking for a platform. Platforms aren't a necessary part of the internet, ask a millenial. They were created after the internet to add extra features like addictiveness and censorship.

What you want is a thing called a website

This requires hosting and a domain name

Some hosting services (e.g. GoDaddy) will impose censorship on you too. For example, they may remove content that is copyrighted in the USA.

njal.la is a pretty libertarian third-party host. Or you could host yourself; there is a Lemmy community about how to do that.

You have the option of writing HTML yourself or using a Content Management System

Good luck

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ghost_laptop lemmy.ml gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-11-25
#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

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engineers. aka workers

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pmk piefed.ca pmk@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-11
#26 · Quote Reply

Ok there's enough samphappalāpā in this thread let me try a real answer. You're not looking for a platform. Platforms aren't a necessary part of the internet, ask a millenial. They were created after the internet to add extra features like addictiveness and censorship. What you want is a thing called a website This requires hosting and a domain name Some hosting services (e.g. GoDaddy) will imp...

I miss websites, like, the "under construction"-gif era websites about medieval swords or tv-show fandoms or such.

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wasabi_noir lemmy.zip wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-31
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Posting AI generated bullshit with a bot should get you banned from the internet as a whole. Get a fucking real life and learn to create shit yourself.

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
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I miss websites, like, the "under construction"-gif era websites about medieval swords or tv-show fandoms or such.

platforms are a fuk

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1Malayali lemmy.ml 1Malayali@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-03-16
#29 · Quote Reply

Posting AI generated bullshit with a bot should get you banned from the internet as a whole. Get a fucking real life and learn to create shit yourself.

Spamming would be the issue.
They can create stuff with AI, as long as it is not used for fake news or other undesirable issues.

Like, a person spamming their Photoshop/GIMP edits maybe be banned because of spam.

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1Malayali lemmy.ml 1Malayali@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-03-16
#30 · Quote Reply

If you did not follow communit rules and instead were using a not to spam, then you may get banned.

Like, which all communities did you post in and what were their general rules?

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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
#31 · Quote Reply

Spamming would be the issue. They can create stuff with AI, as long as it is not used for fake news or other undesirable issues. Like, a person spamming their Photoshop/GIMP edits maybe be banned because of spam.

A person can only be banned if they're posting on a platform with censors.

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♠️ Critical Nexus ✊🏿 reddthat.com PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-09-23
#32 · Quote Reply

If you did not follow communit rules and instead were using a not to spam, then you may get banned. Like, which all communities did you post in and what were their general rules?

I think the issue is that I posted 10 posts in a row so it felt like spam, I had been posting with the same bot for a month to promote my channel without problem. The community was my own so only the piefed.zip server rules applied.

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