Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.
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@mhoye Wonder what it’d cost to fork it effectively.
@mos_8502 Can't be done. You can download the whole thing right now if you want, code and data - they have regular whole-site content dumps, it's just a few clicks - but the community and the infrastructure are what makes it.
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@mos_8502 Can't be done. You can download the whole thing right now if you want, code and data - they have regular whole-site content dumps, it's just a few clicks - but the community and the infrastructure are what makes it.
@mhoye Communities fracture all the time.
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I actually hate this but that’s the only tool I have in hand.
@mhoye One wonders where the Foundation's Board stands in all this, since they're the ones with the power to fire the CEO, but also presumably the ones that approved hiring them in the first place.
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I actually hate this but that’s the only tool I have in hand.
@mhoye unfortunately already canceled mine back when they announced some kind of AI partnership bullshit in January
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@mhoye Communities fracture all the time.
I'm wary of letting Americans run any kind of charity, because it appears it's only a matter of time til their "leaders" turn it into some kind of grift ... but forking Wikipedia is a huge undertaking.
I could imagine that —in the current political climate— the short-term damage would be huge, and exactly what fashists would wish for.
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Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.
@mhoye same
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Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.
@mhoye Getting all of us fired for lack of funding probably won’t help a lot, but I get that this is about the only lever folks have.
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@mhoye unfortunately already canceled mine back when they announced some kind of AI partnership bullshit in January
@aburka We announced getting paid a little bit for data that the clankers and FAANG mega corps have been taking for free for decades. I really wish the comms on that had not been so easily twisted by folks looking to start shit online.
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@aburka We announced getting paid a little bit for data that the clankers and FAANG mega corps have been taking for free for decades. I really wish the comms on that had not been so easily twisted by folks looking to start shit online.
@bd808 well, clearly I wasn't wrong about the kind of people making the decisions anyway
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@mhoye Getting all of us fired for lack of funding probably won’t help a lot, but I get that this is about the only lever folks have.
@bd808 If the situation changes I'll be back, but it's all I have. I'm sorry.
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Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.
@mhoye@cosocial.ca a link, please? (if this post is a reaction / reply to smth, i don't see the history up past it for some reason).
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca a link, please? (if this post is a reaction / reply to smth, i don't see the history up past it for some reason).
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca oh fsck.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca oh fsck.
@tivasyk Yeah.
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I actually hate this but that’s the only tool I have in hand.
I don't see where union-busting fits in here so I guess that's the end of that. https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/values
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I don't see where union-busting fits in here so I guess that's the end of that. https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/values
@mhoye Oh wow!
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@mhoye Oh wow!
@netopwibby I've been donating since I got to a point in life that I could afford to. I've even kept it up while I was unemployed. I hate this, but I don't have any other meaningful way to send even this tiny, tiny message.
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@netopwibby I've been donating since I got to a point in life that I could afford to. I've even kept it up while I was unemployed. I hate this, but I don't have any other meaningful way to send even this tiny, tiny message.
@mhoye Yeah man, it’s tough. I've donated a few times over the years. It seems virtually impossible for anything that started with great intentions to stay that way. Hella demoralizing.
Great thing is that eventually something better comes along? But like, how long will the good vibes last there? The cycle continues.
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@netopwibby I've been donating since I got to a point in life that I could afford to. I've even kept it up while I was unemployed. I hate this, but I don't have any other meaningful way to send even this tiny, tiny message.
@mhoye @netopwibby Same. It's discouraging, really.
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@mhoye Yeah man, it’s tough. I've donated a few times over the years. It seems virtually impossible for anything that started with great intentions to stay that way. Hella demoralizing.
Great thing is that eventually something better comes along? But like, how long will the good vibes last there? The cycle continues.
@netopwibby @mhoye How to break that cycle? Is it always money from the too rich&powerful sabotaging the good thing from some angle?
