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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You are underestimating, by a mile, the editorial effort that goes into fighting scam and spam, vandalism and lies. Wikipedia does have a support structure to do that, I doubt instance admins have the same kind of resources.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Also, any such wiki has to be allow-list only by default. Any open wiki is vandalized with spam and hate speech almost immediately. Open federation would make this trivial.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That structure is extremely corrupted though. And Lemmy shows that volunteers can handle this kind of stuff. Though Ibis will definitely need a lot of mod tools.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That page starts by complaining that alternative medicine is represented negatively. Going to skip the rest of the blog lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How could the bias be so widespread they wonder!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Of course no single site is perfect. Editors may always have ulterior motives. That is what the editing history is for. But with a federated wiki, the only thing you'll get is multiple different versions that all present their oen little "truths" and at that point you can just go back and search the entire internet for blogs, just like the website you sent me is a blog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think thats better than having our single "truth" controlled by a corrupt organization from a different country, different language and different culture. With federation there can be independent wikis for my local country or city.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can already do that. How does federation help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

By allowing users to interact between different wiki instances. Just like you can interact with Lemmy instances from KBin.