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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by TulliusCicero on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:04PM (#21548227)
"Since all content on the platform can be edited or deleted by other users, he believes there's a good incentive for good behavior by users."

There is zero chance this policy survives having a million+ users intact.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by Loughla on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:12PM (#21548286)
It will become power users controlling the narrative. Sort of like how edits and that approval process on wikipedia operate right now.
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by corobo on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:12PM (#21548816)
Yeah I gotta be honest the two sites I both like and hate most on the internet are Wikipedia and StackOverflow. Great resources in most cases but my god the moderation is.. overbearing.

I have my doubts that'll work for a social network. Good luck to them, but I'll have probably forgotten I signed up by the time they next send me an email.

Side note you seem to be able to bypass the signup queue by visiting your own friend share link.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by sergiotapia on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:05PM (#21548759)
"Good behavior" is double speak for "following the groupthink". Just look at wikipedia for an example of how bad this can become, where 1/3 of all content is edited and moderated by one dude with all his biases.

This wiki model is not the solution.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by lucasmullens on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:04PM (#21549935)
Could you point to something specific about the "1/3 of all content is edited and moderated by one dude"? Not sure where to look.
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by Invictus0 on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:00PM (#21550208)
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by wbc on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:58AM (#21551268)
There's some data here but isn't even close to 1/3:

The article talks about user "koavf", who is #2 by number of edits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_...

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by fittslickare on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:07PM (#21548239)
Yes, as the wiki model is in despair.
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by TulliusCicero on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:03PM (#21548747)
Social network posts aren't a collection of verifiable facts. The idea of someone being able to edit my post about my family vacation strikes me as more than a little bizarre.