To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads

It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

I don't really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.

Cursed island

Join !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I recognize that Churches are often community centers and do a lot of good work

Most people don’t appreciate it when you install software on their personal devices without their permission.

Can confirm, was an edgy leftist teenager on hexbear right when it was started – after r/chapotraphouse was banned.

ESG and carbon offsets as an effective way of combating climate change

Apple are the only other ones big enough to throw their weight around. Hopefully they join in.

Well that's that I guess. No more Reddit on my phone.

.webp is a good format. It's Adobe's fault for not properly supporting it.

r/piracy is probably on borrowed time. Might as well return it to normal and wait for it to inevitably be banned. By then, Lemmy should hopefully be more polished.