What's a pro-free speech website for user-generated articles, blogs, etc?

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[–]jet199 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Medium will change their terms without telling you then delete all the stuff you posted before the terms changed which don't comply (sometimes they then even charge the terms back again).

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And I'm pretty sure they ban Conservatives.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Of course you could create a user-focused sub on SaidIt. I hope you do, even if only as a mirror of and/or redirect to your content.

/s/DecentralizeAllThings/wiki/ has a very incomplete small list of social media alternatives. Other platforms with rewards come to mind too: https://Everipedia.com, https://Medium.com, https://Minds.com, https://Steemit.com, and a mass migration forked from Steemit to https://Hive.blog. If there are other sites that reward/crypto/pay/support you for your work, please lemme know to add to these. In the spring, among many other projects, I intend to migrate these lists onto the more powerful wiki onto WikiSpooks within tables comparing features and other information.

I also recommend that you join https://WikiSpooks.com where you can develop, share, and archive your content under your user page. The entire site is backed up and shared in a zip. Note: Unfortunately the markdown on SaidIt, WikiSpooks, and Everipedia are all different, so copypasting must be re-worked by hand to fix formatting without some kind of auto-reformat-script.

Of course there are many other archive sites that can backup the internet too. You may also save and share your documents with IPFS - but know that if you change (revise, update, etc.) the content of a file, it then has a completely new hash which means you'll need to update everything to point to your new IPFS file (unless they've developed stuff to deal with this immutable circumstance - something I know they were working on years ago). I love the idea of IPFS but have yet to use and embrace it. I need to develop content first. Note: IPFS is developed along with 4 other interrelated protocols including Filecoin (to reward content creators, archivists, curators, developers, for exchange, etc) by Protocol Labs. https://Protocol.ai/ Wikipedia suppresses them, but here is an out of date article with much more info: https://InfoGalactic.com/info/InterPlanetary_File_System

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks, Jason!

I guess I could just use Saidit. It's obviously not intended for articles and blogs, but it can do the job.

Medium is far from "pro-free speech". They censor right-wingers heavily, and have a left-wing bias. The other websites seem to be better, though.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

When I come back to SaidIt from my withdrawl, I'll be publishing in /s/BittersweetSeeds. As mod I locked everyone out and turned comments off (for reasons). You can set up your subs as you see fit - even like a blog.

Right about Medium. I mean Left. I'd forgotten they were biased. But I think they do reward content creators. I've not delved into any of those sites, other than early on Steemit and a bit on WikiSpooks.

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

    That ain't an option for me. The big problem is that I literally live in a motel room, but even if I had my own place with my own network and everything, I'd need hardware and a domain name, which cost money.

    [–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    That would be pretty adventurous, but if you use an onion site you don't need a domain name. Then for hardware you can use a cheap raspberry pi.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    No one would go through the trouble of loading TOR just to see my posts, though.

    [–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I think it depends on the audience. Those who use Brave wouldn't have a problem with that.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah, but most people don't have Brave, unfortunately.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    Another approach is renting a VPS for $3 or $5 a month. You could run more than a blog on there too.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Ah, yeah. I might go that route if I can justify the cost. $60 a year ain't that much, but I keep a strict budget as a matter of principle. (Also, I'm unemployed, but let's assume I'll get around to doing this after I find a job.)

    Would there be a way to (legitimately and morally) make $5+ a month from it? Again, the cost is small, but I like self-sufficiency.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Content is king. If you get lots of readers, then sure you could run some ads and cover the costs.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It would be hard to get ads that ain't intrusive or, like, viruses. And there ain't no way in hell I'm putting more than a couple ads on a single page. So IDK how well that would work.

    [–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    It depends on the content, but you could have some affiliate links. But you need an audience to make it work.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah

    [–]grixit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    blogspot works pretty well

    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Ain't it owned by Google?

    [–]grixit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    yes, but it's pretty hands off. most interference i've seen is to require marking adult journals with a content warning.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I don't trust Google or anything they own, but perhaps it doesn't matter — if I get banned, so what?

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Doesn't every organization owned by leftists start hands off?