Exactly, you tell me since I’m just giving you examples of US hosted services as you asked for.
Personally you could self host all three, but it would be a fairly expensive endeavour and you’d be operating on a brand new platform with no users.
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months agoG what are the alternatives to those?
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 5 months ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
How would i tell you when i asked you for the alternatives? That doesn’t make any sense.
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 5 months ago
Pray tell, how do you “pirate” a SSO service as you alluded to above?
No one asked for alternatives. We’re more interested in how you’re gonna “pirate” these things. Cheers!
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I asked for alternatives. More than once. Cheers!
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
GitHub - codeberg.org Internet Archive - archivebox.io
taipan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Britannica is headquartered in the US (Chicago) and most Wikipedia editors are not from the US, so I wouldn’t count out Wikipedia so quickly.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Eh?
The problem is Wikipedia is based in the US. Where editors are from doesn’t really matter. If Wikipedia gets taken down by the government the fact that I don’t live in the United States isn’t going to allow me to continue to update it. We would have to move everything over to a new platform outside the United States, so yeah I absolutely would include Wikipedia.
Most people who post on Facebook aren’t located in the US either
taipan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The difference between Wikipedia and Facebook is that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license which allows the entire encyclopedia to be forked. The entire Wikipedia database is continuously mirrored to servers in countries outside of the US, so Wikipedia can be resurrected in any other country if the situation you describe happens. In contrast, any Facebook content would be lost due to adverse government action.
Asking people to stop using Wikipedia is like asking people to stop using Linux because the Linux Kernel Organization is based in the US (California). There’s no comparable alternative to either project, and the projects can be forked to different countries by their contributors without any action from the projects’ managing organizations. If you boycott Wikipedia, you also play into the hands of Elon Musk and other agitators who are attacking Wikipedia in an effort to redirect the public to right-wing US media sources.
Finally, part of my point was that Britannica is not an improvement over Wikipedia, because Britannica is also US-based. This is the reason I mentioned that Wikipedia editors are mostly from outside the US.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Damn. We need a decentralized archive and encyclopedia badly.