Lawyers, platform moderation, and SEO have wiped it out. What’s left is boring drivel whose only purpose is to sell you a product or a course or avoid a lawsuit. I realize some have moved to private groups and there are still sites if you look hard enough. But is that enough?
Federation feels like the right place to bring that culture back rather than let it die or has that ship sailed?
Agreed, there’s even github topics for this.
https://github.com/topics/malware
Which, github itself has been host to malware in the past… https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/glassworm-malware-hits-400-plus-code-repos-on-github-npm-vscode-openvsx/
And the recent litellm exploit too was spread thanks to github https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-update-march-2026
So I repeat @cattywampas@lemmy.world 's question. What is it you’re looking for? Because there’s also metasploit and tor or I2p that you can use to search as well if you’d like to dig even deeper, however I would suggest atleast a sandboxed VM and VPN for that.