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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In the middle of a wave of rampant misinformation, excessive hate speech, and endless harassment, X owner Elon Musk set his sights on Wikipedia.

Not to be outdone by his own tweet, Musk immediately followed it up with a challenge: “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.”

Beyond its status as the largest and “most-read reference work in history,” Wikipedia has long been heralded as a product of both massive fundraising and an internet full of people obsessed with very specific things.

Earlier this month, Musk called the internet encyclopedia “wokipedia,” after co-founder Wales criticized rampant misinformation on X.

(An October report from NBC found that the Community Notes program has allowed known war misinformation to thrive on the platform unchecked for hours.)

For Rauwerda’s own purposes, right now that includes the description of zoo animals as celebrities in 19th-century American news and a serial defecator in Colorado nicknamed the Mad Pooper.


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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wikipedia should've agreed. Imagine for minimum a year, the whole world opening Wikipedia, gets reminded on the clown Elon Musk, again and again.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and "Elon Musk" becomes "Felon Musk".

[–] RGB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😜 😅 😂 Let him be mad!!!!

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[–] catgirl2005@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Is there anything that stops Elon Musk from buying Lemmy or Mastadon? Even if everyone were to migrate over to the Fediverse, what stops these websites from being bought as well?

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

That seems exactly like something Elon would try to do, just like the idiot that tried to takeover freenode. I'd love it if the creators of Lemmy and Mastodon were able to swindle some money from him.

[–] Thelaststandn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:

  1. Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
  2. It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
  3. If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?

I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Im assuming this is just more effort by him working for Russian interests. Wikipedia being too credible for the war in Ukraine.

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