Open Source Genetic Database(OpenSNP) shuts down after 14 years to protect user data from misuse by authoritarian governments.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.

  I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a goal again one day.

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  • Ninjazzon@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The evil Wikipedia already exists, it’s called Metapedia

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    • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.

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    • morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      en.metapedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln is an example.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Eh it’s not really the same thing, there’s plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can download Wikipedia.

    Anyone can actually.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t have the storage capacity required personally

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