• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    And interestingly it’s trustable because it’s got no central authority core that can be corrupted

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      Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

      Not only that there’s a turf war going on for control of them.

      Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

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        I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

        I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.

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      yeah, apart from the admins that have absolute authority over everything and can do whatever the hell they want and make up arbitrary rules that disqualify your perfectly valid sources.