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This describes Wikipedia Does it? Modern Wikipedia is OK, I suppose, but I feel its glory days are far behind it. It's so gated. And any time I try to parti
by b112 1y ago
This describes Wikipedia
Does it? Modern Wikipedia is OK, I suppose, but I feel its glory days are far behind it. It's so gated. And any time I try to participate, it's like walking through waist deep mud. I almost feel it forces you to shrink to participate.
Maybe I keep trying to edit long-standing articles, which have custodians that feel ownership over the content? And you're editing articles with less gatekeeping?
I frankly don't even try any more. I've heard the same from others.
- akerl_ 1y agoThat’s more an argument that Wikipedia is a social network with a high barrier to entry than an argument that it’s not a social network. Facebook was a social network even when the barrier to entry was “must have gotten in to an elite school”.
- b112 1y agoI didn't say it wasn't a social network. I was specifically addressing the conjoined "intellectual growth + participation" claim, by saying the 'growth' wasn't there. I even joked that it feels you're shrinking intellectually, to participate.