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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Interesting anecdote. Though to judge by your username, it seems you may have an agenda yourself.

This wasn’t the ME/CFS article (the illness I am personally disabled by) and anyways all this happened before I became disabled.

Anyways my ban is over now, but I can’t get myself to edit wikipedia anymore. It was a pretty shitty experience and I don’t wanna go back.

And it wasn’t the only one. So much NPOV-violating stuff on most the fringe articles and whenever you edit to make more neutral tone or you remove something unsupported by citations you end up in an insufferable straw man argument chain on the talk page.

The main fun part is filling out abandoned articles and making new articles yourself. But anything showing problems in other people’s work becomes really tiring really quick with all the talk page nonsense and endless reverts.