Censorship crackdowns for NSFW artists are not going away. You can host your own site for free with neocities.org and you can even find free themes by other users on there. The TOS states NSFW is accepted, and I love using it for personal use. Check it out! ⭐️ - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

daddytrash.com • 127 days ago

Censorship crackdowns for NSFW artists are not going away. You can host your own site for free with https://neocities.org and you can even find free themes by other users on there. The TOS states NSFW is accepted, and I love using it for personal use. Check it out! ⭐️

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acearohanda.bsky.social•127 days ago

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acearohanda.bsky.social•127 days ago

suggestions for people who arent creators but still want to be able to connect with creators and other enjoyers? thats something socmed made possible so didnt know if there was any kind of function like that..?

daddytrash.com•127 days ago

Sites can still be blogs centered around your interests, have a comments sections, chat section, Affiliations and webrings. Communities were here before Soc media companies forced most of us onto only 5 sites. It wasn’t like creators and non-creators weren’t talking directly prior to this!

acearohanda.bsky.social•127 days ago

im honestly super non versed since for like a decade (between ages 13-23) i wasnt really allowed online besides fb bc of people in my life. so i rediscovered internet life in like 2012 tumblr. before that i was only ever on like ffnet prepurge. iii dont really know what im doing im a bad millennial.

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

To be fair, around that time is when ppl started accessing internet and discovering sites like FB as their only gateway online. We had forums, Livejournal prior to Tumblr, went on writer’s sites, and left a msg in their guest book. lol We had options, now we have… venture capital sites 🥴 lol

acearohanda.bsky.social•126 days ago

i had xanga back in the day but those were all like sites you only connected with people you knew not like to discover people in your fandom (ಥ‿ಥ)

doktorgirlfriend.bsky.social•127 days ago

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sylviafloof.bsky.social•126 days ago

honestly I should make something on here jsut for fun I think that would be cool

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

Your site could be anything. It could even be a boat! 🤣

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polyleritae.bsky.social•106 days ago

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paisleybrie.bsky.social•127 days ago

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miniminx.bsky.social•57 days ago

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messii.bsky.social•117 days ago

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zenlosingit.bsky.social•127 days ago

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agitoolacrimes.bsky.social•106 days ago

I tried to learn code to make a site there a while ago and it’s unfortunately not possible for my brain. 😭 The stuff I did try to learn I don’t remember now.

Do you have any suggestions when it comes to making a neocities website when you can’t code?

roguespaceships.bsky.social•106 days ago

Much like old Tumblr you can find pre-made themes and such you can just copy the code for

daddytrash.com•106 days ago

Finding themes to install is a good way to go about it! You can search for site themes on neocities and pick one that fit your tastes and usually they have an in-depth installation guides you can follow along. I highly recommend you do learn in small bites! No brain is bad when it comes to code! ❤️

ganglylimbs.bsky.social•57 days ago

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waitforrain.bsky.social•126 days ago

Where are Neocities based?

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

Neocities is open sourced! So they are not based anywhere, but are a group of collaborators on GitHub who provide this service. You can learn about neocities project which the code is readily available to anyone on GitHub :3

https://github.com/neocities/neocities

waitforrain.bsky.social•126 days ago

Great to know!!! Open source is god.

eldercros.bsky.social•118 days ago

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arctic-wanderer.bsky.social•125 days ago

I've recently been thinking about wanting to have a tiny little space somewhere to host my links and info, this is actually perfect.

Just been bumbling around the last day or so, de-rusting my html skills with this.

daddytrash.com•125 days ago

Yesss 😈 Go for it! Having a little space for you to do whatever you see fit, you start thinking “man…….. this is peaceful!” 😌

lenivets.bsky.social•117 days ago

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starbratinum.bsky.social•106 days ago

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indecisive-fangirl.bsky.social•118 days ago

Cloudflare Pages is also free! Similarly to Neocities, the site must be static, but there is also virtually no size limit, as long as you have less than 20,000 files no bigger than iirc 25MB each.

Not a community, but you can take a neocities site template and use it if you want

daddytrash.com•118 days ago

I see there’s GitHub integration too! I also just remembered GitHub itself has the ability to make free sites as well! Thanks for the info! 👀

indecisive-fangirl.bsky.social•118 days ago

Oh and I think there are ways to export wordpress sites to static versions, I came across it in this video. Super useful for ppl who are intimidated (or frustrated) by coding.
https://youtu.be/abVZxmYmHUM

pixelated-wysteria.bsky.social•125 days ago

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noncontime.bsky.social•118 days ago

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daddytrash.com•57 days ago

Also if you decide to buy a domain, don’t forget to get premiumDNS, which helps protect you from DDOS attacks, etc. Keep your domains protected! ❤️ I suggest namecheap, I love their services. :)

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

I know coding looks scary but if you watch free resources on YouTube, you learn a lot! I have links to help beginners below to get started. Making your own site is cool! :3 ❤️

⭐️ VS CODE https://code.visualstudio.com/
⭐️ GITHUB https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate
⭐️ HTML TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS https://youtu.be/FQdaUv95mR8?si=RqUSYbd_i7KMbIq5

daddytrash.com•57 days ago

I’ve been studying JavaScript again to brush up on it. UDEMY has been a useful tool for me, and they always have courses for cheap prices during the year! This is the course I’m currently studying, for those interested! :3

https://www.udemy.com/share/101Wfe3@3wtPcY7lPRr1ahpBgJn_86rrjrsLLdAYxUgRguTe3iSH_j-EPvORAyE6A5dfYHxIOw==/

junie-junette.bsky.social•57 days ago

Ho god I hate coding so much that I'm gladly paying someone else to do it xD Never again touching this (and I've done 3 years at school learning it. My brain just decided to erase it all). But true, you'll find anything you'll need on YT very easily !

apocalypsegrrl.bsky.social•102 days ago

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scaliehell.bsky.social•32 days ago

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silentavera.bsky.social•127 days ago

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hlr.bsky.social•127 days ago

Did something happen that prompted sharing neocities?

daddytrash.com•127 days ago

An influx of ppl who are interested in being site owners were asking me about nsfw friendly places that are free to start with, and I rave about neocities. :)

hlr.bsky.social•127 days ago

Oh, good, for a moment I thought something happened with this site, I'm just tired of moving places, but having a site sounds cool, might look into it later.

Neocoties is the open source version right?

kimifw.bsky.social•106 days ago

Actually, something did happen. A lot of accounts were suspended for associating with an account that posted "CSAM" which was really a drawing of an anime dragon. Also...
https://bsky.app/profile/youtackything.bsky.social/post/3lbxs23v6xk2t

daddytrash.com•127 days ago

It’s just like geocities in the past that hosted sites for free! Open source things like wordpress is also an option.

rithmalfortele.bsky.social•125 days ago

Oh, for some reason, I thought neocities was the same thing as geocities, so I was thinking "Wow this has been around forever. Guess it's still useful?"
I blame my brain for not remembering all details like "first letter a word starts with".

daddytrash.com•125 days ago

Cackling cuz this is me when the ADHD hits 🤣 I remember when Geocities shut down! One of the best site resources of that time!

laughingcorvus.bsky.social•57 days ago

just signed up, now this one just needs to try and learn HTML again

daddytrash.com•57 days ago

Your brain is big. Godspeed coder corvus 🧠

laughingcorvus.bsky.social•57 days ago

we learned a little HTML and/or Java back in the days of Myspace so that we wouldn't be limited to what theme generators of the day could do, but never got any good with it

daddytrash.com•57 days ago

That’s definitely how I started! I used to tinker with themes and customize my little profile page, really deck it out with a little music player in the corner for a little pizzazz 😂 Xanga, live journal had customizable sections to your blog! I miss it!

laughingcorvus.bsky.social•57 days ago

thinkthere's a clone of classic myspace about

tsuyushi.bsky.social•127 days ago

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somnicorvus.bsky.social•127 days ago

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jjacobmarion.bsky.social•57 days ago

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wingbeats.bsky.social•57 days ago

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funnyskunkleh.bsky.social•57 days ago

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bees-n-sunshine.bsky.social•127 days ago

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bleed-peroxide.bsky.social•106 days ago

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littleevil0ne.bsky.social•57 days ago

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jacemchale.bsky.social•57 days ago

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artofclx.bsky.social•127 days ago

Thanks a lot for sharing. As a NSFW gay artist I cannot use my facebook page since last month as my content is targeted & deleted before I can challenge it. Same seems to happen lately with my Instagram account so I'm gonna be in BIG trouble sharing & promoting my art & comics.

daddytrash.com•127 days ago

Not a problem, friend! ❤️ We are disproportionately targeted for what we do, especially lgbt artists and suffer far more than our sfw counterparts. We have options!

satsumalord.bsky.social•126 days ago

I'll have to keep this in mind for myself in the future; thanks for the heads up. =3

taquito-to.bsky.social•127 days ago

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kittehmei.bsky.social•127 days ago

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heyyyjune.bsky.social•80 days ago

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crypticcrows.bsky.social•126 days ago

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midnightkaito.bsky.social•127 days ago

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capablenugget.bsky.social•126 days ago

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rubyjeune.bsky.social•125 days ago

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lewderberry.cc•126 days ago

Didn't the nsfw tag get shadowbanned in the neocities page search function?

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

Where’s your source for that? It makes sense that you type “nsfw” and find no results, but “gay” “queer” and “lgbt” are all searchable terms and sites pop up. I have over 70,000 views on my website, and they tell you this in ur dashboard. There is no algo on neocities to suppress anything.

lewderberry.cc•126 days ago

oh huh. Right, thanks, I didn't realize that. I only did the thing of looking up "nsfw" and finding no results (even though ppl must tag their websites as nsfw)

ladylibido.bsky.social•57 days ago

Neocities says that any site that you flag as being 18+ are restricted from the open search, so they do not hide that fact. Other than that it doesn't block or circumvent your website in any way.

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daddytrash.com•57 days ago

Yeah so minors and people who don’t wish to see ur 18+ site don’t actively find it, that’s a good thing. My site got over 80,000 unique views without open search. 🔍

ladylibido.bsky.social•57 days ago

yeah it doesn't prevent a site from being found on search engines, and if you link it on your own profile to begin with, not being in the neocities specific search is pretty negligible IMO. No different from hosting a website on any other service.

snepshark.bsky.social•57 days ago

And importantly, if any issues ever do arise with its TOS, you can export your whole site super easily to take it somewhere else.

coyoteden.bsky.social•126 days ago

The sites likely to be hit by crackdowns also say NSFW is accepted at the moment. Neocities is based in Portland. If a porn/LGBTQ ban happens you’ll have to move it outside the US.

If any kind of ban actually happens it will be on hosting. A ban on accessing it would be unenforceable.

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

Nsfw artists I know making a living are getting banned off MAJOR social media sites, and now that Patreon, Fanbox, and Subscribestar are making TOS changes and taking a stance, I am highlighting owning your own website avoids said crackdowns. The govt isn’t shutting down neocities lol

coyoteden.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ah, I thought you were referring to potential P2025 stuff affecting Bluesky, etc.. that would hit Neocities too.

Yeah, the subscription sites are already doing what the credit card companies tell them they have to do. At lot of the same conservative creeps are doing it at the corporate level.

coyoteden.bsky.social•126 days ago

But the Neocities is good because the platform is open source.

Someone could clone the whole thing overseas and everyone could migrate easily.

daddytrash.com•126 days ago

Got ya! P2025 is HIGHLY CONCERNING omg lmao reading that bill kept me up at night at some point! It’s all tied into it… but my eyes are always open. Open source is the way forward! ❤️

blowingoffsteam2.bsky.social•127 days ago

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