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I think I hate myself for saying this, but this is the sort of thing that has the facade of being funny, but really isn't funny at all.

Like, what's the actual joke here?

"monkey.org is happy to host sites for our users. but not you."

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It's not meant to be a joke, it's just the cyberspace equivalent of a private clubhouse for a group of tech people who live or went to college in Ann Arbor, MI. There are websites (and other services) hosted here, but it's not web hosting for the general public. You have to know someone to get an account here, and from what I can tell it's been mostly dormant for the last decade or longer.

I know and worked with several of the people on the users list. Great people, but I don't know why this is on the HN front page.

Totally agree.

"monkey.org has a bunch of users. most of them hate you."

Okay?

The alt text is pertinent.

https://xkcd.com/1210/

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