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How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by archchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About your first point, I've heard that Wikipedia is actually very wealthy and doesn't need the money. They essentially run a scam every year asking for more.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why everyone freaks out that wikipedia tries to keep a reserve. Yes, they have enough money on hand to run for a few years... Is that really such a bad thing? Why does everyone think nonprofits should be scrimping by before they do their next donation campaign?

To me, keeping a reserve fund just seems like good money management, and I'd rather donate to an organization that manages their money well than one that doesn't. If there were problems with a large chunk of donations not going to wikipedia upkeep it would be different, but as far as I can tell all of the controversy is just over the fact that they have a reserve at all

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The biggest problem is the fact they beg for donations and the wording makes it seem like they are about to shut down unless you donate right now. They are disingenuous.

No one said having reserve funds is bad, so please don't put words in my mouth. Just don't act like you're about to shut down Wikipedia to get more money when you literally have millions in reserve. It's scummy.