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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago

Donald Trump is a pedophile rapist.

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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 54 points 4 months ago

God I can't wait for that website to die already

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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 months ago

It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

I don't really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 72 points 6 months ago

Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it's not even close

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One excerpt I find concerning about this project:

The company is set up as a “public benefit corporation”, which basically means (in my non-US layman understanding) that it is a business and it’s meant to make profit, but that profit is not it’s only and main goal. It can and should have other, more noble goals that benefit the public, as the term implies, in this case: creating a protocol for decentralized social apps that everyone can build on.

At the moment, they don’t have a clear plan on how the company is going to make money on the platform – the general idea is to build some extra paid services on top for users and developers. They said they don’t plan to ever add ads and they promise they won’t “enshittify” the service in future. In any case, they’re explicitly building the network to be resilient even in the unlikely scenario that they themselves “turn evil” in the future – the network is meant to be “billionaire-proof”, impossible to completely take over by one guy with too much money.

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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Cursed island

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So they're actively working to block ad blockers, showing more ads, and bundling the ad free version with a worse version of Spotify—a no-win scenario.

The Google's breakup can't happen fast enough.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 280 points 1 year ago

I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago

Apple are the only other ones big enough to throw their weight around. Hopefully they join in.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 166 points 1 year ago

There are ancaps here?

There shouldn’t be. Can we please start bullying them?

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago

Why would anyone be surprised by this? Zuckerberg would have to be a complete idiot to not use Instagram's existing social graph for Threads.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago

I like this Lula guy

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