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Re:Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks by jowea on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:53AM (#45138603)
The difference is that there are corporate alternatives to OSM, and they're popular. The closest alternative to Wikipedia is asking an LLM to read Wikipedia for you.
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Re:Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks by stevage on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:50PM (#45145072)
>The difference is that there are corporate alternatives to OSM, and they're popular.

I actually think that's probably a good thing for OSM. If OSM was the only game in town, there would be a lot more contention, fighting over how businesses are represented etc etc.

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