“If you’ve ever hosted a potluck and none of the guests were spouting antisemitic and/or authoritarian talking points, congratulations! You’ve achieved what some of the most valuable companies in the world claim is impossible.”
“If you’ve ever hosted a potluck and none of the guests were spouting antisemitic and/or authoritarian talking points, congratulations! You’ve achieved what some of the most valuable companies in the world claim is impossible.”
Rebecca Watson had a nice breakdown of how Wikipedia avoided this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9lGAf91HNA
Basically they nipped that shit in the bud and didn’t allow it to take root and the Nazis gave up. The ol’ anecdote of kicking the polite Nazi out of the bar so it does not become a Nazi bar holds up.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=U9lGAf91HNA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Anyone know if it is possible to get the Piped link in the NewPipe app? I only get the YouTube link when I hit Share.
Disable/delete YouTube in your settings and go to settings - apps - default apps - opening links, press on the newpipe app and enable opening links, you may have to add supported links manually
My whole experience of seeing articles raided by Azeri and Turkish users in English-language Wikipedia, and the way discussions there go, says that they didn’t avoid it. Well, maybe only the specific case of German NSDAP fans. Not the phenomenon as a whole.
And also “Wikipedia” includes its non-English spins, there are two things about them - 1) each one is different and has different problems in general, 2) various kinds of evil are well represented.
If we remove ourselves from the Nazi\Turanist\tankie\flatearther\etc problem, I’ve also seen harmless geeky articles about software etc removed because of being “too niche” or something (sometimes, but not always, presented as lack of good sources, because of course these would be underrepresented in what that ignorant fuck of a moderator would consider a good source), so there’s an “aggressive normie” problem too.