…I’ll do a little personal campaigning for Fark.com.
Fark is one of my favorite websites. And tbh, I didn’t even know it existed until a few months ago, but it’s been around since 1999.
I stumbled across it one day and instantly realized it was everything I missed about old Reddit, or the original Digg.com back in the day: it’s just a solid link aggregator with a community of funny people who post cool, funny shit.
It’s one of the few old school websites that hasn’t succumbed to enshittification over the years, too. That’s pretty rare these days. Drew, the original founder is still there with the company, still blasting out his email newsletters every week.
It’s not sustainable though, and they need a little help:
Fark is more like your neighborhood bar, where the regulars come to talk to friends, hang out in a comfortable spot that they don’t have to clean up after themselves, and sometimes argue but buy each other rounds afterwards. Neighborhood bars survive thanks to regulars who show up on a regular basis. Neighborhood bars don’t get by on the guy who comes in one time, does a bunch of cocaine in the bathroom, and leaves without paying for a drink. And Fark, like most bars, has a lot of bathroom guys. Less than 1% of the people who read Fark subscribe. If 2% did, we wouldn’t need ads at all.
It’s a wonderful little place to hang out, but like any other indie operation; your friendly local Mastodon instance, Lemmy, blogging platforms, PBS, or NPR, it relies on funding from its users to stay alive.
I don’t wanna see Fark go the way of Digg, MySpace, or Reddit. Reddit’s still here, obviously, but it’s trash. Digg is back too, I guess, although these days it’s more like some guy’s personal link blog than a community. Which is fine — that’s what I do here, after all. But it’s a far cry from the Digg I loved in the 2000s.
They’re asking for BareFARK and TotalFARK subscriptions and if they can get 1000 this month, they’ll finally release the long awaited Fark Dark. It’s literally just dark mode for Fark, but that sounds really nice.
And they’re only asking the price of a beer, or maybe a pitcher — either $5 or $10 depending on which sub you go with. You don’t even have to set up recurring payments, you can just do a one-time charge and see if you like it. And you can still do a little blow in the bathroom, as a treat.
I’m pretty late in posting this; they’re about 60% of the way there, but the deadline for 1000 subs ends in three days. I really like Fark and wanna see it stick around for the long haul. And Fark Dark would be nice.
…I’ll do a little personal campaigning for Fark.com.
Fark is one of my favorite websites. And tbh, I didn’t even know it existed until a few months ago, but it’s been around since 1999.
I stumbled across it one day and instantly realized it was everything I missed about old Reddit, or the original Digg.com back in the day: it’s just a solid link aggregator with a community of funny people who post cool, funny shit.
It’s one of the few old school websites that hasn’t succumbed to enshittification over the years, too. That’s pretty rare these days. Drew, the original founder is still there with the company, still blasting out his email newsletters every week.
It’s not sustainable though, and they need a little help:
It’s a wonderful little place to hang out, but like any other indie operation; your friendly local Mastodon instance, Lemmy, blogging platforms, PBS, or NPR, it relies on funding from its users to stay alive.
I don’t wanna see Fark go the way of Digg, MySpace, or Reddit. Reddit’s still here, obviously, but it’s trash. Digg is back too, I guess, although these days it’s more like some guy’s personal link blog than a community. Which is fine — that’s what I do here, after all. But it’s a far cry from the Digg I loved in the 2000s.
They’re asking for BareFARK and TotalFARK subscriptions and if they can get 1000 this month, they’ll finally release the long awaited Fark Dark. It’s literally just dark mode for Fark, but that sounds really nice.
And they’re only asking the price of a beer, or maybe a pitcher — either $5 or $10 depending on which sub you go with. You don’t even have to set up recurring payments, you can just do a one-time charge and see if you like it. And you can still do a little blow in the bathroom, as a treat.
I’m pretty late in posting this; they’re about 60% of the way there, but the deadline for 1000 subs ends in three days. I really like Fark and wanna see it stick around for the long haul. And Fark Dark would be nice.