Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage?
from PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2025 12:30
https://reddthat.com/post/50238805

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to share a book reading list with some friends, but Pastebin’s SMART filters flagged my content as potentially offensive, even though it’s just a list of book titles and authors. The only option I have is to make the paste private, which isn’t useful for sharing.

I tried PrivateBin as an alternative, but it doesn’t allow editing after creation. I need a service that lets me edit the paste and keeps it available for at least a year. Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable pastebin alternative that meets these criteria?

Thanks in advance!

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EnsignWashout@startrek.website on 17 Sep 2025 12:46 next collapse

This seems like a job for a WordPress blog or GitHub pages.

NorthWestWind@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2025 12:57 collapse

Or just use GitHub Gist or a repository. I have been uploading my arts to a repo for backup for a while now

solrize@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 2025 14:11 next collapse

That sounds like you just want a web page. neocities.org might be a fun approach. If you want something more serious you should probably use paid hosting. namecrane.com/store/da-shared-hosting starts at $8 per year and you get quite a lot of resources for that. You can install a wiki so your friends can edit, among other things.

Toes@ani.social on 17 Sep 2025 17:53 next collapse

My dungeons and dragons group uses Google docs for that. Never had an issue.

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 17 Sep 2025 21:00 collapse

PrivateBin is an open source Client side encrypted alternative to PasteBin that has everything you want, with the caviat that just like Fediverse you have to pick an instance you trust to stick around, or self-host of course.

https://privatebin.info/directory/

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 17 Sep 2025 21:03 next collapse

https://hedgedoc.org/ for self-hosted option.

https://cryptpad.fr for a private free cloud hosted option that doesnt require an email to sign up.

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 17 Sep 2025 23:47 collapse

a couple more open source options with actual pastebin type interfaces, but which have not been updated in some time and have official instances which have been blacklisted on uBlock are:

hastebin https://github.com/kevr/hastebin

and DPaste https://github.com/DarrenOfficial/dpaste

jinx@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 2025 20:03 collapse

GitHub gists or GitLab snippets may fit your use case better. or Rentry if it isn’t code.

if you selfhost, ByteStash or Opengist.