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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/20/2026 18:40 EDT

Longtime Web-Weirdness Site Fark Faces Ad Pinch

sandbagger writes: 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 necessitated begging. "[W]e won't survive this year without more TF subscribers," wrote founder Drew Curtis in a post on Bluesky. "Spread the word."





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