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I ran a similar service when In was in high school. People were using it to distribute links in public settings that were meant for small circle of folks. Lots
by jszymborski 2y ago
I ran a similar service when In was in high school. People were using it to distribute links in public settings that were meant for small circle of folks. Lots of club newsletters were distributed this way.
People also used it for selling files and things but as you've said it was trivial to defeat and only filtered out the least technical folks.
It was surprisingly popular.
- mmanfrin 2y agoI, too, ran a similar service in high school. It also got weirdly popular, and then spammers started using it and the FBI sent a shutdown notice to my server provider while I was working at a summer camp (with no internet access) and all my sites got taken down for a week :(
- jszymborski 2y agoI shut down for similar concerns (phishing/spam), albeit before law enforcement required me to. I would certainly be running URLs through block lists, with a Report Abuse system if I were doing this today.