Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.
You know what website still miraculously works?
Wikipedia.
You should donate to keep it that way.
@tveastman -
It is beginning to look a lot like a conspiracy, isn't it? 😉
I think the sites where "we", ordinary users & subscribers, are still trusted and in control to generate content are still the most reliable.
The drive to monetize and control content is what will kill the Internet, I think.
@hambach18
They don't offer a static v4 address for a fee, or do they require you to subscribe to a business grade service for that?
@mnemonicoverload @hambach18 A dynamic IP would be fine to (in the assigned by ISP to your router sense, not in the local computer sense) since they share their network with other customers on CGNAT. They will need to have some sort of connection to a dedicated network.
Personally, I think this should be completely regulated so that access to the internet with a router that you won and control is accessible, but that's just me.
@mnemonicoverload @hambach18 That would typically be very expensive right? It's not really feasible to give everyone a static adress on IPV4...
It would be really cool one day to blocking off a few sub-nets so that we could give everyone in the world their own static IP address.
@spark315
I haven't checked in a good while, but yes I'd imagine it's only gotten more and more expensive, depending on how large a block of addresses the ISP in question happens to be sitting on. Of course this is part of what IPv6 has always been intended to solve.
Network Address Translation (NAT) and Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) are two technologies that allow devices on a private network to communicate with devices on the public Internet. While both NAT and CGNAT serve similar purposes, there are some key differences between the two that are important to understand.
@svetlyak40wt @WiseWords @tveastman
Interesting podcast about who is researched, and how wiki chooses who gets to be on the site. Much more rigorous than I would have thought.
More than 80% of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are male, and this gender bias is reflected in its articles: less than 20% of published Wikipedia biographies are about women. We meet two Wikipedians trying to close this gender gap, one profile at a time. Guests: Dr Jess Wade – Physicist and Research Fellow at the Imperial College London. Annie Reynolds - Wikimedian, WomenInRed project member, family and local history researcher.
@tveastman If you donate money to Wikipedia, it doesn’t go to the people who create what you read. 70% of that donation will go to keep the servers running, & fix bugs in the software. The other 30% will go to the Wikimedia Foundation, whose efforts don’t always help Wikipedia, Wiktionary, the Commons, & the other altruistic projects.
To be honest, I don’t know what most of them do, & I’ve contributed to Wikipedia for over 20 years.
@tveastman Wikipedia is falling apart in a different way. Large parts of it bear no relation to reality and the Wikimedia foundation is doing nothing to stop this.
The Wikimedia Foundation doesn't control the content of Wikipedia articles. Volunteer editors, like me, do that.
32 seconds · Clipped by phasang · Original video "Are We Optimistic About Tech with Hasan Minhaj" by WVFRM Podcast
Actually you should donate time and brain, not money. Wikipedia has enough money, it needs active users. Make an edit today and then again. Add a foto and then a series of fotos. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia everyone can contribute to. But only about 20000 do. Billions of people can and should contribute.
Das ist natürlich unbeantwortbar ohne die konkreten Fälle zu kennen. Dass gerade die deutschsprachige Wikipedia speziell ist, wird immer wieder gesagt. Es gibt auch einzelne Artikel, die von einem “Veteran” verteidigt werden: Das ist ein Problem, das es nicht gäbe, wenn mehr Leute mitmachen würden. Dann gibt es auch nicht nur die “grossen” Artikel, nicht nur
die deutschsprachige Wikipedia, sondern auch eigene Dialekt-Wikipedias (bayerisch, kölsch, ….) und nicht nur Wikipedia, sondern auch die Schwesterprojekte wie wiktionary, wikivoyage, wikisource, wikibooks, usw. Schlechte Erfahrungen mit einem Einzelprojekt bedeuten nicht, das Gesamtprojekt verwerfen zu müssen.
Hey the #Fediverse is starting to look a little glowy around the edges too!
MySpaceBook is pretty much only to connect with family to me. I've been trying to move more of them over here.
@tveastman Countersuggestion: Wikimedia has been tens of millions of dollars in the black for 9 out of the last 11 years[1]. Donate to the Internet Archive instead, so all the references that back up the articles can continue to exist. :D
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
@ruthan @tveastman Exactly, the sources that wikipedia references are lost to link rot in a major way.
Wikimedia has enough money, each time I see a donation call, I take it as a reminder to donate to archive.org instead.
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