• flamingos-cant@ukfli.uk
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    8 months ago

    Everything is biased. Even saying something as simple as “grass is green” is biased, it has the bias of normal colour perception. I’m colour blind and don’t see grass as green.

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        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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          8 months 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.