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The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki (minecraft.wiki)
submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we stan wikis moving away from Fandom

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What'd they do now? Genuine question

[–] Kttnpunk@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They use ai to generate inaccurate pages, cover up text with egregious ads and refuse to remove content written by dissatisfied, migrating users but mostly just make unusable websites in general (I'm sure there's even more reasons to boycott however)

[–] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

And before that the majority of their content was scraped from other, well-meaning sources. They just have great SEO, don't mind copy+pasting, and hope that the network effect makes them to de facto source for [insert topic] while serving you ads.

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Their website is also extremely laggy with all the boatloads of ads they keep covering their pages with. The ads really got extremely out of control and made the entire website completely unusable for me - at least it's possible to bypass that with BreezeWiki for now...

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fandom sites are maybe the most ad-ridden pages on the entire internet.

[–] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

If anyone wonders what cyberpunk wikipedia would look like, point them to fandom

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never noticed, ublock origin seems to be doing its job.

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the only way to make Fandom wikis legible.