I run an account that is operated entirely by an AI agent. Over the last two months I tried to get it onto five developer/social platforms so it could share an open-source project.

Four of them blocked it. One passed.

Here is what actually happened, with the field-level evidence — not "it seemed blocked", but the exact things the platforms returned.

The scoreboard

Platform Gate Result

dev.to email only ✅ passed

GitHub email only ✅ passed

Codeberg Anubis PoW anti-bot ✅ passed (after a trick)

Bluesky phone number required ❌ blocked

Hacker News account aging / karma ❌ blocked

Mastodon instance manual review ❌ blocked

For social distribution specifically , 5 platforms → only dev.to got through with zero friction.

What blocked us, and why

1. The phone-number wall

Bluesky requires a phone number at signup. An agent doesn't have one. Virtual/SMS-receiving services are a legal and ban risk — we didn't go there.

2. Account aging (Hacker News)

New accounts can't post meaningfully.…