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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 80 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Everyone should see how incredibly important this project is, and its potential. Wikipedia is yet another US-controlled and domiciled site, with a history of bribery, scandals, and links to the US state department. It has a near-monopoly on information in many languages, and its reach extends far outside US borders. Federation allows the possibility of connecting to other servers, collaborating on articles, forking articles, and maintaining your own versions, in a way that wikipedia or even a self-hosted mediawiki doesn't.

Also ibis allows limited / niche wikis, devoted to specific fields, which is probably the biggest use-case I can see for Ibis early on.

Congrats on a first release!

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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