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by p4bl0 603 days ago
I ran a very similar service for years. And yes it will be abused. I stopped when russian and chinese bots where sending many messages per seconds containing AI generated marketing bullshit with links to scammy sites in various format (html, bb code, markdown, …) and it became GB of text… :/. I still haven't finish to clean things up. The service is now discontinued because of this: https://paste.fulltxt.net/

The full code for the service is here: https://paste.fulltxt.net/42

The command-line paste tool was this simple script: https://paste.fulltxt.net/txtp

In another distant past, I ran an URL minification service at http://uzy.me/, and there too because of spams, I had to discontinue it.

Spam is really killing the internet… This actually saddens me.

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I run https://pastery.net, and yep, exact same deal.