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Let's say someone created a Wikipedia clone with Activitypub support, so you can freely read and edit articles on other servers. Basically the same way that Lemmy works. What would be a good name for such a project? Bonus points if the name goes with a cute animal mascot.

Edit: Here you can see the names of existing Fediverse projects.

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[โ€“] fishos@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

So, you STILL HAVENT ANSWERED MY QUESTION.

What part of wikipedias code or implementation is the problem? And how will the fediverse solve this?

IF dude is corrupt, what's to stop the next fediwiki from being corrupt too? After all, since it's federated, if I don't like your "facts", I can just defederate and spread my own "facts".

So maybe do some reading of your own and answer my question. What's wrong with the Wikipedia CODE that federated CODE will solve and how? Otherwise all you're really advocating for is starting your own Wikipedia, and no one is stopping you.

This is just "old thing + new buzzword".

[โ€“] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I bet a year ago you would have said the exact same things about Lemmy, and yet here you are.

[โ€“] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I understand the difference between a centralized and decentralized service. I WANT Wikipedia to be centralized. I've said that since the beginning. Objective truth has no business being splintered up.

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