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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
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[–] ikka@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia also releases all content for free download under a permissive license, so I don’t think it’s fair to say that the US government is a meaningful threat to its quality of information

What? How are these two points related at all?

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone can fork at any time. The US gov could theoretically hold Wikipedia's brand and servers hostage, but the actually valuable stuff is already mirrored in a decentralized fashion that is completely unrestricted under US and international law.

EDIT: Maybe you meant that the US could covertly vandalize Wikipedia? Maybe, if they keep it very low-key. Editors are used to this kind of stuff though, it happens all the time from all governments since they can just, y'know, edit it. Anything actually impactful will be noticed by the editors which will just cause a fork.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Many of the editors are themselves neoliberal American cultural imperialists and proud of it. The issue isn't direct control so much as an army of useful idiots.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

That statement ITSELF is American cultural Imperialism. There are a bunch of languages other than English on Wikipedia...

Also [citation needed].