I like the concept and learning about the history and all, but putting it in practice is annoying

Making imports and running some code functions to apply math things is a lot less annoying

Algorithms are the sole reason I go for Google products :(

Unpopular opinion, but I would much prefer having gold algorithms on Lemmy as well

ReVanced is just the way to go for me. Good UI is a requirement, and sponsorblock and return YT dislike integration is a must have

It’s a myth, no cisgender women, only transgender women and femboys, but yea they’re the goats

Depends on the subject

That’s the best one right there

Well, did you get reported and did you ever say you were under 13?

You often get age verification if your account got blocked because someone reported you to be underage

Thanks for asking! The subject has been coming up for quite some time. I might edit this comment with more sources later on, because I’ve learned about this a few years ago and don’t keep a full list of my sources on me.

I have a few reasons for this:

1. The Wikimedia Foundation (the entity that receives your donations) only uses a really small fraction of your donations for the Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. The rest goes into various non-essential spendings. [1]
2. They’re not efficient about spendings. Each year they receive more, and each year they spend more, way more than they should compared to Wikipedia’s growth.
3. The WMF doesn’t really do much on Wikipedia. All the writing and nearly all the moderation is done by volunteers.
4. They block anonymous proxies, VPNs, Tor exit nodes from editing, even if you create an account. No exceptions for regular people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1123763881#RfC_on_the_banners_for_the_December_2022_fundraising_campaign

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Can’t give away free ink, but can’t compete either. That was my point.

Can’t sell spare parts for a good price

Free as in beer?

Free as in freedom, where everyone is welcome to access, contribute.

so the idea that anything stated there could possibly belong to someone doesn’t exactly make sense. You can own the rights to a process, or a song, or own the right to produce something, but the composition of an object, the technology driving an innovation, or the background of music theory are facts, and statements around them are part of public discourse

This is false. While facts are facts and no one owns them (except for patents), it’s the formulation that you own. Plagiarism is about this. I didn’t want to focus on the legal aspect anyways, the license behind contributions is well known and I have no issues with it.

Your entire comment is not on the subject that I was talking about. I’m saying that the Wikimedia Foundation profits from volunteer work while they do very little, and I don’t believe that’s fair. I would much rather donate to contributors than to the foundation.

You should also know that non profits are really often abused and a way to pay less taxes. Many of them act like for profits.

Then you have to accept Wikipedia is not free. I’m personally not willing to give them my IP, and I’ve been actively prevented from editing, fixing and adding information on the website.

The sole knowledge that they don’t use the money to fund Wikipedia should be enough to understand that your donation is not needed. When you donate, you think you donate for the great content, and maintaining Wikipedia, but that money isn’t used for that, or at least in a very small proportion.

Wikimedia foundation doesn’t write articles and do very few moderation. Iirc there are less than 100 employees working on the site. They’re financially profiting from the volunteer work people do. Just like Reddit.

Obviously, preserving Wikipedia is important. Donating is not the way to do it though

“Fascists criticize Wikipedia, therefore all criticism is done by fascists”

I criticize them and I do not share the ideas you’re saying I do.

Nope

Wikimedia the tool is great, the foundation behind it, not so much

Which effort? 99% of it is volunteer work by people not at the wikimedia foundation

The website itself needs a really small amount of money. Most of the money goes for other stuff which might not seem useful to you.

They make it seem like they don’t have money but it’s quite the opposite: they increase their spendings based on their revenue. They have enough for many years.

Don’t donate to them. There are far better ways to spend your money than a foundation that doesn’t really do anything on Wikipedia and that still actively blocks anonymous proxies.

Nope

What are these characters

That’s weird. Opening your stuff but not allowing others to make stuff commercially for it?