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    2 months ago

    I’ve seen the occasional post about Fandom sucking now, but I don’t know the back story. Anyone care to enlighten me?

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      2 months ago

      It was created by Jimmy Wales, the founder of wikipedia, as a for-profit alternative to wikipedia. So it has all the enshittification typical of for profit services — adds everywhere, tracking, attempts to “outcompete” “competitors” instead or collaboration… etc.