this is an opportunity for Lemmy to get some more users and goodwill.
Making some grand assumptions on those "users" being desirable or in any way a net positive.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Host your own instance if everyone bans them. Not only because of your control over the content, but because you will not burden their servers.
Only correct answer. Where to host? That's the fun thing OP, YOU get to host it. Just register your name, address, phone, and credit card with a hosting provider and they'll set you right up, you can host all the gore you want.
Unless you just expect some other person to host your content, but that wouldn't be very fair, would it?
Why the condescending tone? 90% of users on Lemmy post things and have "some other person" host it. I personally don't enjoy much of the content they want to post, but in a platform starved for content (and easily user-filtered) I don't think we should be getting feisty with people wanting to post.
People who want to post more than likely illegal content and let others take the heat for it, and then get mad when they impose rules so they don't go to prison. Let's be clear, you want to start a cat community go for it, love it. You want to post illegal content that can get the server owner's doors kicked down and hauled off to jail? Get outta here and host it yourself if you believe in it that much.
Essentially, if you aren't willing to risk it yourself, don't insist others risk themselves.
Honestly, fair and valid. But maybe op has not had it explained this way before? Only ever getting banned for "breaking the rules" without an explanation behind the rule.
I see where you're going, and I get it. Honestly, this question comes up a lot and would be great to have an FAQ. New accounts wondering why they can't post horrific shit. I started nicer when I explained it, but it's been so many times now, and the posters who do engage have always been insistent that they can't possibly host their own stuff, that it's the mean mods who refuse to host it for them. Its different here, when we are responsible, and I wish there was a unified way to explain that.
I've thought about it, but first no one would find it and then also those who read it are not those who would need to see it.
Bruh leave the NSFL and people dying videos elsewhere. No one wants to see someone get their arm ripped off by heavy machinery. Maybe 4chan?
When I first started smoking weed, like ten years ago, I would sometimes check Reddit. Since I couldn't really figure out what the titles meant, or notice in which subreddit something was posted, I'd often end up seeing footage where someone died.
Really fucked with my head.
have you considered fucking not?
Google for fediverse instance block lists and pick one of the right-wing cesspits that brag about their "free speech" and "no censorship" policies. Let's see how much free speech they really tolerate.
Or try these Lemmy instances. They're already trash, so no worries about ruining anything:
maga.place
hilariouschaos.com
You have to be a horrible person to enjoy videos like that
It's great when folks like OP make it easy to know to block them.
Probably /gif/ on 4chan.....
Threadiverse instances aren't really rigged up for hosting video. Some will handle certain formats of video files, but the size is normally limited, and IIRC they don't guarantee that they'll retain the video for an extended period of time. I guess that one could link to externally-hosted ones.
I'd kind of suggest that PeerTube is really more oriented towards video posting.
https://peertube.fediverse.observer/
I guess someone could post to a PeerTube instance and then submit their posted video to the Threadiverse for discussion or something.
There is a reason why they keep getting banned...
go to 4chan
I knew what the first one is, I managed to find the second one. Nothing about the third one other than Low Frequency Oscillator.
Learning from Others, basically people getting their Darwin Awards, dying from something stupid. 😬
I'll stick with the low frequency oscillators...
There are so many great free virtual instruments these days.