Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
by doctor_m on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:00PM
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I feel like Wikipedia is doing a pretty solid job of holding onto that dream: no shouty content, pure information that's maintained by those who are interested in it, and a fairly well outfitted battalion of bots that fend off adversarial edits
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Wikipedia is pretty good for its specific purpose but it’s far from the promise of the open web. Wikipedia has a number of authoritarian moderators who will revert people’s changes for opaque and arbitrary reasons.
Maybe if you took all wikis as a collective then you could get something a bit closer. There’s still the matter of finding them so it’s not ideal. Then there’s the matter of ads. Wikipedia doesn’t have them but other wikis are rife with them.