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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Wikipedia even buyable by cunt muffins like Elmo?

It is a non-profit organization.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really, but Jimmy Wales is a ayn rand libertarian knob, so there may be parts of the org that he would happily let Elon fuck with.

Hes the ceo of fandom/wikia as well, the plague destroying game wikis with deep enshittification, so yeah. Not confident hes going to turn down this offer.

[–] badaboomxx 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I wonder if he didn't have his family's money, could he have been successful?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s the story of most ultra rich people. It’s hard to fail when you have that much money.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Don't you dare fucking touch Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Just a heads up, you can download all of wikipedias Text in a couple Gigabyte iirc. So we could easily "fork" and mirror it.

[–] DirkMcCallahan 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This does lend credence to the "He's intentionally tanking Twitter" theory.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago
[–] Cheems 20 points 1 year ago

Please for the love of whatever you hold dear, do not touch that website

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Oh look, another article giving him the attention he so craves.

Can we just not?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If my 5€ donation from last year has any power, I will veto this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Authoritarian DICKtator muskovite having a tantrum.

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