Genuinely gross restriction on speech here.

Remember to follow all the channels in the puppy pact manually, since like half of them are affected by this.

Alright chat.
Fuck censorship. I wanna make a new bot to fix 'iOS restrictions'

My idea right now is:
You add it to a chat (it shouldn't need any perms except for send message)
You reply to a channel post with /forward
It re-creates the message, attachment and all, appends a little Forward from: {channel @ but it actually links to the specific message link} header to the top. It either sends it in chat or DMs it to you. Optionally, it auto-deletes the /forward command message.
You can then fwd that from the bot and it acts like a fwd from the channel

You can also customize the fwd header for your channel, and making the generated message autodelete

It's a little clunky, but less clunky than making entire second channels, which some are considering.

What do you think chat? Would this be useful? pls comment ideas/notes I wanna hear 'em

Alright! I got a basic version of the Ban Bypass Bot working! (Absolutely worth losing the sleep over. Fuck censorship!!)

I've created a bot that lets you bypass the recent "iOS Restriction"(nsfw channel ban).
You can add it at @iOSBypassBot. It requires no permissions to run.

All it needs is to be added to the chat of a restricted channel, and then any user can reply to a post with /fwd and it'll send them a sharable/forwardable version of the post! It can even be configured to auto-delete user forward commands to prevent spam.

I'll have it running in a local droplet for the rest of the night and I'll move it over to my webhost in the morning.

For now, if you have a restricted channel, please try it out and let me know what you think! Any feedback is very valuable at this stage.

Thanks! <3