Post AWkKX1bwVd9O8C78aW by Oozenet@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWkAqQkGHnEO2mcUGO by tveastman@cloudisland.nz
       2023-06-16T01:13:41Z
       
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       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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWkIs8OaHPAtLVntdg by llywrch@masto.ai
       2023-06-16T02:46:39Z
       
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWkIuxgiXwf50QdLhQ by Life_is@no-pony.farm
       2023-06-16T03:50:26Z
       
       1 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @tveastman 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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWkKX1bwVd9O8C78aW by Oozenet@mastodon.social
       2023-06-16T03:29:44Z
       
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       @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.#wikipedia
       
 (DIR) Post #AWkQs8YSUFNDTOw0Tg by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2023-06-16T11:47:45.591445Z
       
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       @tveastman All of such proprietary SaaSS wasn't good in the first place.I'd like to note that Wikipedia has plenty of money, thus giving them more is a bad idea.What sadly happens with these kinds of projects is that any extra money left over from hosting and maintaining the servers tends to be burned on things that actually work against such project.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWmIYDl9133kVRmSHY by grillchen@brotka.st
       2023-06-17T09:24:01.239332Z
       
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       how to burn money 101. give money to actual open source projects in need. wikipedia is the ultimative pinnacle of money donations already