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Showerthoughts

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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] Damaskox 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is wiremin using activitypub?

[–] Damaskox 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know myself. I just heard about it. Haven't studied it at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Damaskox 2 points 1 year ago

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.