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[–] Slinky5737@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad day, but the digital carousel of penises will live on elsewhere.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be nice if they had opensourced the code so anyone else could host it.

[–] thepaperpilot@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering the reasons for shutting down, specifically that it took too many resources to keep out bad actors and keep the site as safe as possible, I don't think making it open source is a good idea.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago

It's always a good idea to "open" something that is "closing". We can't comprehend what others might be able to do with it.