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   N33R 🏳️‍⚧️ (n33r@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:51:09 JST N33R 🏳️‍⚧️
   is there some astroturfing against wikipedia going on? ive seen a bunch of "memes" on english and german reddit telling people not to donate because they have millions in the bank
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:51:09 JST Blurry Moon

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     @N33R its true afaict
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:54:20 JST Blurry Moon

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     @N33R @Nexy its pretty excessive and they constantly beg like they are literally going to run out of money
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     N33R 🏳️‍⚧️ (n33r@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:54:21 JST N33R 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @Nexy @sun yeah but they need that money as a security, like imagine if they get sued for some reason, this way they have money to actually fight it
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     Ｎｅｘｙ (nexy@rebel.ar)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:54:24 JST Ｎｅｘｙ

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     @N33R Wat.
     I want to live in that world, where a non-profit service becomes multi-million dollar for some unknown reason

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:59:28 JST Blurry Moon

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     @N33R @Nexy people have dug into what the spend 175m on and it's ridiculous. they spend so much money on back-scratching
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     N33R 🏳️‍⚧️ (n33r@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 07:59:29 JST N33R 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @sun @Nexy >the WMF raised upward of $165 million ($165,232,309) from over 13 million donations in FY22. It has budgeted for $175 mn in 2022-23. Its total assets stood at over $250 million in 2022.
     
     having $250 million when you spend 175 a year doesnt seem that excessive to me?
     
     but im just a dumb kitty i shouldnt be thinking about economics meow
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:09:18 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Nexy @N33R I won't insinuate anything then, the reason I dislike them is because they take money nominally for running wikipedia but in reality they spend like 30-40% of it on donations to other organizations I find repugnant. It's basically money laundering.
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     Ｎｅｘｙ (nexy@rebel.ar)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:09:39 JST Ｎｅｘｙ

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     @sun @N33R better spend the money in the IA and sillicon valley, they need it more.

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:12:37 JST Blurry Moon

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     @teratology @Nexy @N33R no idea but I don't like jimbo for a while now.
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     cipote :bishrexual: (teratology@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:12:38 JST cipote :bishrexual:

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     @sun @Nexy @N33R isn't Wikipedia basically controlled by glowies at this point anyways?
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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:14:37 JST georgia

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     @sun @Nexy @N33R @teratology I remember jimbo unilaterally deleting pornographic stuff from the Wikipedia commons and he got in trouble with admins for that
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:16:36 JST Blurry Moon

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     @georgia @Nexy @N33R @teratology that's particularly funny considering the origins of wikipedia. I found out about it because the first advertisements for it were a banner ad on his other project, a porn search engine. He used to get pictures of porn stars for articles wearing a shirt advertising his search engine, Bomis.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:17:15 JST Blurry Moon

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     @Nexy @N33R I respect your position on this, I have just grown disillusioned with the organization.
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     Ｎｅｘｙ (nexy@rebel.ar)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:17:35 JST Ｎｅｘｙ

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     @sun @N33R The web works well, it's a service to the world, the money was donated, it never had been enshitificated in all this years. Having money in the face of any unforeseen its a good call for all the backups and all legal problems they will have.
     I think it's a good cause and a bug in the matrix a web like these exist at all, you can see how much struggle have the archive right now.
     I think there are real villains in other places and we are hitting the wrong people.

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     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:17:47 JST georgia

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     @sun @Nexy @N33R @teratology truth stranger than fiction
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     Ｎｅｘｙ (nexy@rebel.ar)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 08:20:03 JST Ｎｅｘｙ

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     @sun @N33R i can empathize with that

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