Elon Musk’s frustration with Wikipedia seems to come from his inability to control what it says about him, rather than any issues with the platform itself.
After what he’s done to Twitter, Elon just want the world’s most popular encyclopaedia bend towards his will.
People should consider using alternative platforms like Mastodon and WreMin. These platforms are in the early stages of development, but they will never be controlled by Elon or anyone else because, unlike Twitter, they work in a decentralized way.
Look at their website, they keep babbling about their “protocol”, but all you can find about this supposed protocol is marketing speak, no real technical specification or paper, no code, nothing. How does this thing actually run? Nobody knows.
It’s proprietary, which alone is enough reason to run away from it. And seeing that the dev’s email is gmail, we can be sure they don’t give a fuck about privacy or decentralization.
A fediverse decentralized Wikipedia substitute would be interesting for sure.
Wikipedia’s massive head start is pretty strong though. With Lemmy, I don’t care if a post has 100 comments while the same article on Reddit has 10,000. The comments here are better anyway. But if a Fedipedia has 1/100 the subjects covered that Wikipedia does, that makes it less useful.
Yup…no matter how good a tool is, if there are no users to it, it might be as good as it never existed (unless if someone takes ideas from said tool and implements them to a user service, growing their quality, which is still better than nothing). Sad but true.
Elon Musk’s frustration with Wikipedia seems to come from his inability to control what it says about him, rather than any issues with the platform itself.
After what he’s done to Twitter, Elon just want the world’s most popular encyclopaedia bend towards his will.
People should consider using alternative platforms like Mastodon and WreMin. These platforms are in the early stages of development, but they will never be controlled by Elon or anyone else because, unlike Twitter, they work in a decentralized way.
Definitely not wiremin! it’s scam
Look at their website, they keep babbling about their “protocol”, but all you can find about this supposed protocol is marketing speak, no real technical specification or paper, no code, nothing. How does this thing actually run? Nobody knows.
It’s proprietary, which alone is enough reason to run away from it. And seeing that the dev’s email is gmail, we can be sure they don’t give a fuck about privacy or decentralization.
It seems that this decentralized style starts to be a new trend?
First this Fediverse/Lemmy I heard about. Then The Matrix (messaging platform). And now these Mastodon & WreMin.
Well, if that prevents or slows down the corrupted law of enshittification, then I’m approving it!
is wiremin using activitypub?
I don’t know myself. I just heard about it. Haven’t studied it at all.
A fediverse decentralized Wikipedia substitute would be interesting for sure.
Wikipedia’s massive head start is pretty strong though. With Lemmy, I don’t care if a post has 100 comments while the same article on Reddit has 10,000. The comments here are better anyway. But if a Fedipedia has 1/100 the subjects covered that Wikipedia does, that makes it less useful.
Yup…no matter how good a tool is, if there are no users to it, it might be as good as it never existed (unless if someone takes ideas from said tool and implements them to a user service, growing their quality, which is still better than nothing). Sad but true.
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