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It's so bad now that I am frequently getting really annoyed by them, and I mainly am searching for technical stuff about Golang.

The number of subjects that are not covered on wikipedia, and the stuff they do have is so fuckin bogus. Wikipedia has just turned into a roadhouse toilet complete with glory hole and complete bullshit scrawled everywhere and the smell of leaking sewer pipes.

Catty_McCatface 2y ago

I’d heard that Wikipedia is compromised, which may account for the junk in there 🙈

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Loki 2y ago

Yeah, Wikipedia is practically worthless for information about anything that might contradict the Current Thing. More than several observed cases of edits preceding campaigns of political and propaganda.

Catty_McCatface 2y ago

And to think once upon a time I was naive and donated to them thinking that they were ok.

I remember the sheer wonder of books as a child where anything was possible, filled with all kinds of knowledge. I remember reading as much as I could get my hands on about everything from ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece to Japanese history, science, math etc etc

I thought that Wikipedia would grow to become the chest of wonders that I recalled as a child. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Loki 2y ago

Yeah, it's been a harsh awakening for many of us. The intuition about it is what made this whole cypherpunk game theory thing so fascinating - that if we had the correct protocol we could abolish certain things entirely forever.

It's still true, just that in most cases we don't have the protocol yet.