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Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Every so often I give a few bucks(far less than the worth of knowledge I got from it)

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[โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

I wanna dig into this point: i find it really weird how you tie rejection of crypto into politics at all, let alone reactionary politics. I always saw it as just the fact that the product doesn't fit most people's needs as a currency.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's reactionary politics? I'm not sure what else led to the rejection. It doesn't actively hurt them to accept crypto. They just capitulated to reactionaries in their rejection, what else would I call it?

    I'm not even claiming that crypto in its current form can handle global transactional needs, but Wikipedia and Mozilla realised that it could just be an additional avenue for payments. It wasn't hurting anyone and allowed people like me to contribute. How would you like it if you couldn't pay for things because it upset other people's views of what the world should be like? Because that's what happened to me.

    Wikipedia caved to white Western imperialists' demands which have no basis in reality and excluded large portions of the world, most of which are marginalised communities who don't have access to the same financial systems that Westerners do.

    I'm just glad that SciHub isn't headed by a reactionary but an actual person who cares about our rights to free and fair access to all things. And SciHub proves the need for an alternate financial system that isn't dominated, or at least, directly controllable by vested interests of the Western financial system.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ah, i see, so it's conspiracy theories.

    You know, the tech just being fundamentally flawed is a lot simpler an explanation than this, and it has the distinct advantage of actually having any evidence to back it up.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    At this point, I'm not sure you understand what reactionary means?

    The tech being fundamentally flawed has nothing to do with payments being stopped. Show me one reason where they said it was because they weren't receiving the payments as shown by the blockchain.

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