airportline

airportline, 2 months ago

It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

I don’t really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.

airportline, 24 days ago

To answer your question, it’s inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads

airportline, 24 days ago

God I can’t wait for that website to die already

airportline, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Don’t go to OnePace Dot Net. It is an abridged version of One Piece with the same pacing as the manga, but its distribution is illegal due to copyright.

airportline, 3 months ago

One Piece?

airportline, 2 months ago

My favorites:

• Jigsaw Falling into Place
• Reckoner
• Bodysnatchers
• 4 Minute Warning

airportline, 2 months ago

Apparently, that account is run by a TERF who deadnames trans men and refuses to include trans women’s art.

airportline, 24 days ago

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

airportline, 1 month ago

Masterful gambit sir

airportline, 2 months ago

Car-dependent suburban sprawl

airportline, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists in the first place.

airportline, 3 months ago

Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it’s not even close

airportline, 1 month ago (edited 28 days ago)

I’m heavily interested in Bluesky, so I started !bluesky. However, Lemmy is overall pretty hostile towards Bluesky, and I’m not willing to go back to Reddit for active discussion about it.

airportline, 14 days ago

SteamOS used to use GNOME, but now it uses KDE.

airportline, 15 days ago

Valve should have used GNOME on SteamOS so I could actually use it with the touch screen, and no on can convince me otherwise

airportline, 2 months ago

Not right now, at least. There is actually a project by @snarfed to bridge Bluesky and the fediverse.

airportline, 2 months ago

Are there any potential repercussions for sticking a utility knife into the speaker grill?

airportline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.