Your personal blog. Static blog generating tools are quite nice these days. Put links and short descriptions on your twitter. There could also be mastodon and (ick) gab
Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
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Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing they don't want to deal with it. This is actually good, if more people chose not to use Medium because of issues like this, Medium would adapt or die.
Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something. I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?
This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#43Self publishing on your own server is probably simpler than understanding the terms of service of a third party host.
Since you are clearly already self-censoring for fear of algoritmic retaliation, you should consider the time impact of that as well as the impacts to the quality of your writing.
One approach is to self-publish, then "syndicate" to ephemeral places like medium, blogger, livejournal, GeoCities, or whatever the kids are using these days.
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something. I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?
This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.
Nvm, this whole post is just whipping up attention before he posts. It is factually untrue that the usage of slurs results in an automatic and incontestable ban, and I would be surprised if OP did not bother to do any basic searching before inventing this boogeyman.
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#45> And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting my account automatically banned. > The article will be showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson as anti-racist works, so don't suggest any actually pro-racism sites. In today's culture wouldn't any site that permit…
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Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#46> I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.
With a little effort, you can do this. Your own domain and NFSN (Nearly Free Speech) [1] for hosting is the combo I’d recommend. You need to handle the blog generation (and/or sFTP) part. You’ll get proper support from humans if there are any issues.
[1]: nearlyfreespeech.net
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#47> I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.
You can try https://blot.im/ or https://mataroa.blog/
Super easy to setup.
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#48I expected maybe a couple of suggestions like ghost and substack, so thanks for all the suggestions.
I think I'm going with substack.
As to why I asked instead of doing all the research myself, I have a family,two kids, one teen and a son with advanced autism (5 years, functionality of 9 months old), a full time job, and trying to write to build audience following the algorithms for attention among various publishing platforms - which means it's easier to write a short couple of paragraphs asking HN and hoping for a pointer.
As to why I think it might happen, mainly paranoia, also I keep seeing articles on Medium about how you don't want to get banned by Medium so keep in line. For example - https://medium.com/feedium/how-to-not-getting-banned-on-medi...
Do I think I would get banned for writing about Huckelberry Finn and other works of Twain regarding Racism? I don't know! Frankly I've seen a lot of argument that Twain was a racist over the last few years and that Huckelberry Finn should be banned, ironic as I consider it one of the greatest anti-racist works in the English language and that he paid an African American student's way through Yale https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A... I'm going to have to stop regarding this matter here though, as I fear I would end up writing the bulk of the essay in a post on HN.
Considering the demands on my time, my own ADHD, and the fact that the way I managed to get this all set up and working was because I had a free month in between projects I worry that if things got shut down I would not be able to spend the time getting it open again. Risk aversiveness varies dependent on one's ability to handle risk, go figure.
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#49Have you tried posting it on your existing blog? How is your analysis of Twain so spicy that you’re expecting to both A. get autobanned by Medium and B. not be able to get the ban reversed upon appeal? Would you care to share a snippet of your literary analysis that you think might lead to you being kicked off your platform? Otherwise, this seems like a bit of an ad for your (edgy?) blog.
Response partially in here as to why I worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230225
Re: Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
#50I run brick.do, which lets anyone publish anything. It’s basically a WYSIWYG pastebin with support for subdomains, nested pages, CSS, and JS. All your posts are disconnected from each other unless you explicitly decide to claim authorship — that is, by default nobody can discover than posts/sites A and B are by the same author. We also don’t divulge authorship information to anyone. We’ve been threatened with lawsuit…
hey, thanks, that also looks pretty interesting.