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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

No shit! So it's not exactly a counter-point to the concept of a "Wikipedia alternative"

Any self-styled Wikipedia alternative ended up dead, thematic, or biased by design

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    With biased by design I have meant something like Conservapedia, RationalWiki, etc.. They do not try to make neutral point of view, as is (or at least should be) applied on Wikipedia.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Each instance would ideally have their own standards for neutrality or bias that they see fit. It's no different from self-hosted wikis except with the federation concept appllied on top of it. I'm sure someone will create an instance that is a straight up clone of wikipedia, another person will create an instance for everything pro-communism / pro-china, someone will create a strictly anti-theism wikipedia, etc.

    I don't see anything wrong or weird about this, the skepticism this project is receiving is stupid. It's nothing new under the sun.

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