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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think thats better than having our single "truth" controlled by a corrupt organization from a different country, different language and different culture. With federation there can be independent wikis for my local country or city.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can already do that. How does federation help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

By allowing users to interact between different wiki instances. Just like you can interact with Lemmy instances from KBin.