i think people underestimate the impact having access to wikipedia has had on the world. really an amazingly important part of the internet and the sharing of knowledge
Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole is worse than going down a Street View rabbit hole. Ahh I can spend an entire day doing it!
Good old wiki walking, you never realize what you’re doing until a few hours in, and even then you can’t stop.
Or the high speed car chase equivalent of it, find hitler
You’re right, although if you ever get the chance to browse a real physical encyclopedia, it’s a unique experience.
Not practical, but it’s a bit like playing a record or playing a game on a real NES. It’s a unique experience.
I have a full 2007 set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in the same room as my vintage computer collection. I browse it occasionally.
Oof, felt this right in the geriatric millennials.
Mfer I was doing assignments where I had to scroll through index cards to find the encyclopaedia, then hand write out the essay.
It’s weird when you go from being the disruptor demographic to realising that when your 5 yo kid jokes about the 80s it’s as far away in time to him as the 1940s we’re to me - for him it’s a 2d, pre-Alexa, analog dystopia.
And I’m only 42.
I bought several physical encyclopedias as a a result of my Wikipedia addiction. Having physical encyclopedias to fall back on is a plus, as their information can’t be taken down by deletionists. I also got the Encarta isos off archive.org running in 86box.
I got suckered by an encyclopedia salesman when I was younger. It was one of the biggest wastes of money of my young life. I had no need for it at that time and later, when I could have used it, I had the internet (or Internet with a capital I back then) and college libraries.
I just love the fact that Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia using the money he made in softcore internet porn.
I really enjoy Mastodon so much more than twitter
Unpopular opinion? Mastodon is a better Twitter than Lemmy is a better Reddit.
So many duplicated communities in Lemmy makes managing subscription impossible.
Reddits quality main appeal also is its past threads whereas on Twitter is rarely about what was tweeted but rather what’s the latest thing that’s happening.
Lemmy will need time and it might never replace reddit. But I look forward to the quality interactions with everyone here!
I read somewhere this is an upcoming feature. Let’s say you subscribe “memes” then you got shown all communities named “memes” from federated servers combined.
They are not duplicated (just the same name) and it’s not impossible to subscribe to them all with a few clicks.
Use https://lemmyverse.net/communities and simply search for communities and subscribe to them.
I’m just going to take the opportunity to talk about that Wikipedia is free, it doesn’t have advertisement, all the data is freely accesible and your privacy is respected, is just maintained by donations and the community. Just looking around other platforms I think they do an amazing job, so consider to donate today to keep it that way.
they have more than enough money to keep the server running for decades. not to say you don’t need to donate, but you don’t need to impulse donate every time the big header appears.
I donate about 100 USD a year, give or take. I figured it’s worth it for as much as I use Wikipedia
To be fully transparent I donate 1 dollar a day, I just appreciate what they do, and I would like to have more services that are able to keep it that way, sadly that is not the case.
This adds a lot of legitimacy to the fediverse
I think all big orgs, NGOs, news agencies should do this.
Yes! Also Governmemt agencies.
The Dutch government had created a mastodon server
Beautiful to see Wikipedia throwing their weight into it! Just beautiful to see this spiraling.
Great news!
I hope custom algorithms become an option. I like chronological feeds but would love to have chronological feeds that show me a post based on my likes after 3 posts or so. It would make it much easier to discover new blender artists like is possible on twitter
I came up with an idea (on my alt account ^.^) to improve discoverability… it’s more focused on instance or group discovery, though it may be doable for users with a probabalistic reverse index for efficiency. See: https://infosec.pub/post/429743
that’s excellent! I wonder if they’ll keep their WT Social network going. Does anyone use it?
