Longtime Web-Weirdness Site Fark Faces Ad Pinch (bsky.app)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/2239204/longtime-web-weirdness-site-fark-faces-ad-pinch
- Source link: https://bsky.app/profile/drewcurtis.bsky.social/post/3mqzzcrtbdk22
> [2]Fark.com is ancient in internet terms. It's not social media. It's not quite a news site. It's a holdover from the dot-com era and is invisible to Google, which makes its community great but has [3]necessitated begging .
"[W]e won't survive this year without more TF subscribers," [4]wrote founder Drew Curtis in a post on Bluesky. "Spread the word."
For the unfamiliar, Fark is one of the web's OG community news sites that features a wonderfully weird mix of user-submitted links, absurd headlines, Photoshop contests and comment-section mayhem. It has also been featured numerous times on Slashdot over the decades, from a [5]2007 review of founder Drew Curtis' book and a 2010 story about his [6]skepticism of "the wisdom of crowds" to a full [7]Slashdot interview with Curtis in 2015 . For longtime readers of both sites, Fark feels like an old neighbor from an earlier, stranger and arguably more fun era of the internet.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~sandbagger
[2] https://www.fark.com/
[3] https://www.fark.com/comments/14136264/Drew-announces-Last-Post-Ultimate
[4] https://bsky.app/profile/drewcurtis.bsky.social/post/3mqzzcrtbdk22
[5] https://news.slashdot.org/story/07/05/29/1718214/its-not-news-its-fark
[6] https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2128211/fark-creator-slams-the-wisdom-of-crowds
[7] https://features.slashdot.org/story/15/05/11/1430223/interviews-fark-founder-drew-curtis-answers-your-questions
Fark sucks (Score:2)
N/t
Fark is images and text (Score:1)
It's a link aggregator. What the hell is going on that they won't survive a year? I know hosting prices have skyrocketed because of AI slop bullshit but still... As far as I know they don't have video directly on the site and that should be the only thing that really guzzles bandwidth.
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If rsilvergun likes it... I feel compelled to hate it.
Then I guess it doesn't survive (Score:1)
Fark has no significant redeeming qualities, so I guess... OK, thanks for the update, dustbin of history is just on your left.
Re: Then I guess it doesn't survive (Score:1)
Have you seen Slashdot comments lately?
finally! (Score:1, Funny)
that smartass with the fark.com sig file will finally go away
so long, it's been good to know ya (Score:4, Insightful)
Yea. I once paid for totalfark. But as it slid into a political echo chamber, I got bored real quick. The fact that Drew posted his begging for dough on blue sky is telling. The whiskey must have saturated the servers beyond repair. Good riddance.
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I terminated my TF subscription for the same reason. I may lean to the left, but Fark is a far left authoritarian echo chamber, and it manifests the most toxic characteristics of that political leaning. Its almost funny, as they've done more harm to the left than they'll ever really understand. Perhaps its demise will actually be good for the world.
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I have a Fark account that's nearly 25 years old, including more than one submitted headline that made it to the pre-TF front page.
I don't think I've even visited Fark in maybe 15 years. They got... how do I put this gently... *extremely* thought-police-y in a Orwellian-Kafka-esque way that straight up made my skin crawl. Later on what they were doing escaped containment and was known more widely as "woke". They were one of the early zealot converts and, well, it didn't work out very well for them long term
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I've been at fark since Drew was begging for beer. It's a hole these days sadly echoing echoing echoing...
"They were one of the early zealot converts and, well, it didn't work out very well for them long term." ---------This very much
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It might have been okay if the /pol/ people just stayed in their little ghetto, but they cross-posted to the main tab while bringing their (even more than usually) biased moderators. That made the main tab toxic as well.
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Same here. Fark's only redeeming quality was poking fun at everything and everyone. Then the political junkies swamped it, and I stopped visiting. I'd forgotten all about it til now. Tried my old login. Says the password has expired.
*shrug*
Longtime Farker sez (Score:3)
The Daily Ukrainian War Thread on Fark [1]https://www.fark.com/comments/... [fark.com] is worth looking at.
Also, poop threads.
[1] https://www.fark.com/comments/14136462/Day-1608-of-WW3-Zelenskyy-sends-400-friends-to-visit-Moscow-region-hits-7-more-shadow-fleet-vessels-as-Pooty-Poot-reportedly-blows-his-monthly-wad-of-ballistic-missiles-in-less-than-19-days-risking-shooting-dust-Monday-Ukraine-War-thread
It's funny.. (Score:3, Insightful)
The number of people questioning the relevance of Fark on Slashdot, as if Slashdot has been relevant in the last decade.
Slashdot USED to do SOME original journalism, long long ago. Now, it's nothing more than a very low-volume link aggregator itself, with occasional effort put into some posts here and there.
Re: It's funny.. (Score:3)
To be fair I only come here for the comment section these days. Still some insightful people here. The articles are terrible in many cases others just lack so much information they may as well not have been posted. Even worse are the ones with affiliate links built into them.
Its the rebuttals to the rebittals ... (Score:2)
> To be fair I only come here for the comment section these days.
Its like the election pamphlets with initiatives or referendums. The original arguments for or against are not the most interesting or informative (like the slashdot articles), its the rebuttals to them, and the rebuttals to the rebuttals where the real info leaks out.
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The idea that you have to be relevant to point out that something else is irrelevant is merely an elitist attack. The claim isn't that they're not 1337 enough, the claim is that since they're irrelevant, they don't need to be saved by charity.
If slashdot was begging most slashdotters would make the exact same point.
It's funny and interesting that it's still here, but perhaps that doesn't make it a thing of value.
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The people that made things got tired of the BS and moved on. The people that TALK about making things are going as strong as ever...
And by "survive" he means.. (Score:2)
Be able to make it rain in the Champaign Room.
Lost me a long time ago. (Score:4, Insightful)
I was there for the beginning and in the end they went way overboard on the SJW. They started really looking forward to the smell of their own farts. Not to mention in the entire time they were having those fark parties they have never once came withing two hundred miles of me. So fuck you drew while you stew in problems of your own creation.
Surprised to see the right wing (Score:1, Troll)
Crawling out of their hidey holes to take a pot shot at fark.
Just out of curiosity where did you slink off to? I know it wasn't Reddit because the overall tone there is the same as fark. Maybe truth social? Or twitter? I guess there's always 4chan.
Any website that controls its trolls and racists is inevitably going to look like sjw because despite what El presidente is telling you social justice is actually a good thing. We used to call it civil rights until a billion dollar propaganda campaign tol
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You think rsilvergun is a Democrat? He's just a shovel in a manure pile. Not an original thought. Having a pension does help defocus your life.
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wow the world you live in seems sooo um exciting
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You comment is crazy, like... you're upset that you didn't feel comfortable sniffing their farts anymore... because insulting everything and everybody turned out to include you. And your snowflake melted.
That is offensive and triggering! (Score:2)
> ... SJW ...
That is offensive and triggering!
;-)
thank Genevieve Marie (Score:1)
She basically single-handedly killed the site.
Re: [snowflake stuff] (Score:2)
If only the ebil witches weren't so pwowerful, you'd be smart and handsome and living your best life!
Even if witches were real... fark is your lost utopia that the other side destroyed?!? Even in this Age of Stupid, that's... surprising. And more than a little pathetic.
Funny stuff (Score:2)
Yeah, that's a fun site. One of their latest headlines, "Taco Bell's foot traffic takes a giant dump, much like the people who ate there.", or, "Sony: I sure am tired of all this negative press. I wish another company would take the heat off of me. LG: *takes long puff of cigarette* Hold my beer. I'm going to install adware on people's Win 11 PCs."
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It's kinda sad that even after all these years they haven't learned the basics of writing comedy.
At this point they qualify for "Golden" discounts and they still think, "Heh heh, you said poo" is the funniest thing in the world. And when they try to go beyond that, they don't even try to use implication so that the joke forms in the reader's mind. The end result is just, "haha, you suck, I'm so funny for thinking that." Where's the joke?
France (Score:2)
...surrenders.
I get kicked off all the time (Score:1)
I mostly go there for the photoshop this posts. If I respond in a NON LEFTEST way, I usually get banned for 1-2 days. They are NOT a free speech place. You pretty much have to align by their views or they kick you off. Hey, it's their site, they can do what they want, but the leftist that go there aren't going to pay money to go there. Plus, the ads? I didn't even know they had ads since my blocker blocks them LOL.
Re: I get kicked off all the time (Score:1)
That's fucking hilarious given the amount of super right wing trolls on there that are pets of the mods. You just happen to post outright racist shit frequently. I've seen your posts there.
Fark pulled my post! (Score:1)
I posted on the thread crying for money that they were getting pummeled on here and less than an hour later MY post was pulled. Once again proving they only like POSITIVE posts in their favor.
It's as if... (Score:2)
It's as if Fark was becoming nearly as irrelevant as SlashDot. I will only truly miss one of those, though truth be told they should both exist.
Good riddance (Score:1)
Fark is a link aggregator, but curated by angry leftist boomers and... well I'm not really sure anyone else is there. This was the first time I visited there since before the Iraq War.
What we're all thinking (Score:1)
How could they be profitable without the foobies?