Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Buying and destroying Twitter started with a joke like this.

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  • Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless Wikipedia is a public company with fiduciary responsibilities, can’t they just say, “fuck you. No.”?

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I’m sure glad someone looked into that. Still, I’m anxious he might try to do Bad Things™ to it. Ya know, like he does whenever he gets some idea in his head about something, and the Bad Things™ happen to it.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s that, and the fact that Jimmy Wales might have a reverse uno card, as he is quietly developing a free and non profit social media platform of his own called trust cafe.

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  • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did it?

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter was public. Wikimedia is a 501 non-profit.

  He can’t buy it.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, I know. Still feels less than good

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