Wow. So Wikimedia is really just a small hedge fund that happens to run the servers for an encyclopedia on the side. I had a hunch they spent a lot more on other non-wikipedia stuff, but for hosting to cost almost 2% of what they invest is eye opening. And makes it all the more petty that they can’t pay their labor. Especially since so much labor is in fact volunteer work.

Curious, what does Wikimedia actually invest in besides Wikipedia? It’s still a non-profit, right?

they are a 3rd party and therefore not liable for the bullshit they spout.

Screw that liability BS so hard. You hire them to represent your company, you need to be accountable for what they do under your payroll.

I just hope the past generation (going on two now) have gotten people to see through the gaslighting and we can rise up against it this time.

only became a problem because Meta made them

Anyone who remember “glassholes” knows this isn’t new. Wearing a camera on your literal eyes is still a step too far in this otherwise compromised world.

But yes, I think the big issue here, as others pointed out, has to do with the nature of the company producing them. That’d be especially important for a place like DEFCON, which is all about securing your data.

I’m not banned, I deleted my account 6 years ago.

yeah, I just go directly to subreddits. I can’t access anything. heck, I was on a specific post last night, then refreshed the tab to a login screen.

if you can afford a paid option, I’ve heard good things about Kagi. It basically uses several backends (including google) but cuts out the ad junk. And it reportedly tends to give you better results, or at least less sponsored crap.

It’s something I wanted to try out more once I can get a dang job.

Google had a special deal to scrape Reddit’s data right? That might carve out some special exceptions.

BTW, hello. I tried the fediverse out around 2022 through kbin (which seems to be dead?) then drifted off. Haven’t had a reddit account since 2023 (and my mains were deleted around 2020), but I swore I’d force myself off Reddit when old.reddit. I guess that time is now.