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>An underground website called OnlyFake Now we're conflating underground with darknets? Journalism at its finest. What exactly is an underground website? This
by 1970-01-01 3y ago
>An underground website called OnlyFake
Now we're conflating underground with darknets? Journalism at its finest. What exactly is an underground website? This website is public and very welcoming to all:
https://onlyfake.org/robots.txt https://onlyfake.org/robots.txt
- AlecSchueler 3y agoI'm thinking they mean in the sense that it's not in mainstream use. Think of "underground" music which is played in clubs that are open and welcoming to the public. One definition when I looked up the word was "a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression" which I think also applies here.
- wellthisisgreat 3y ago> not in mainstream use Not after HN frontpage!
- declaredapple 3y agoI cannot investigate further because I'm at work, but if they use that clearnet url you linked, they aren't really a darknet (since they're clearnet). Underground makes more sense here as they're clearnet but you have to be "in the know" to know about them.
- imglorp 3y agoThe primary definition of underground means hidden, but most of the secondary definitions apply here. adj. 3a: existing outside the establishment, as in "an underground literary reputation" n. 3c: an unofficial, unsanctioned, or illegal but informal movement or group The journalist might even have intended: n. 3b: a clandestine conspiratorial organization set up for revolutionary or other disruptive purposes especially against a civil order
- dang 3y agoWe moved it above ground in the title above.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoThank you for that, however I was referring to the very first sentence in the article.
- dang 3y agoBetter there than here I guess!