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We truly are on the precipice of a dark age, aren't we?

How much longer until Musk says something like "the holocaust wasn't that bad", "the holocaust was merely an effort to deport the undocumented Jews", or even "let's do it again!"

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

Wow, so Elon Musk has his own Wikipedia alternative? Interesting. But I'm not surprised that it already seems to have some questionable content on it...like referring to Hitler as "the Führer." That's not exactly an accurate description of him. And it's also concerning that the page on him goes on for 13,000 words before mentioning the Holocaust. It's important to accurately and objectively represent historical figures and events. Hopefully, this Wikipedia alternative will work on improving their content in the future.

That’s the official turd Reich history. If we don’t win this will be what children will learn in the Shitler youth soon.

Man calls unbiased site biased, releases biased site to replace unbiased site.

the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.

i dunno, that seems a bigger problem to me than recognizing hitler's title was der fuhrer.

Gross.

The man can literally afford to have a legal harem island, fund an entertainment company to create anything to amuse him, AND solve world hunger simultaneously...and he just fawns over Hitler.

His wealth is truly wasted.

I don't believe Elon sees any of this honestly. In his eyes, this is what it is: racist and highly propogandized bullshit. This is because Elon is a racist, highly politically bias asshole.

I wonder how (or if) grokopedia defines "woke"?

Most of the people who complain about "the woke" arent able to define it.

I mean the whole stupid Grokipedia thing is a shit show that will never take off, but Fuhrer is just "leader" in German. In it's used context for Hitler it straight up means dictator and (iirc) only came into full on use after the plebiscite giving him full dictatorial power after Hindenburg's death in 1934 (edit: He was already the Reich's Chancellor and merged in Hindenburg's powers with the vote to make himself full dictator / Fuhrer).

I'd welcome input from a German national - Is the word still used there?

I just watched a tech video that reviewed two North Korean smartphones. Its autocorrect assertively blocks out or autoreplaces anything deemed unfit by the government, along with absolute control of what can be done on it, and absolute fingerprinting of anything sent.

I was reminded of this for no reason.

Tbh, from a historical point of view, The Führer was used to describe Hitler. Now in Germany, it's basically only used to refer to him.

I'm not for deleting history, and I think the context is important. People needs to know why The Führer or "der Führer" is bad.

A context which I think would have helped in another example would be the N-word. If everyone was really taught the history around that word, I think/hope alot of people would think twice before using it today.

Or is that only me?

Conservapedia already did this something like twenty years ago. It missed the entire purpose of the project, which was to invite a kaleidoscope of specialists and journalists to document the volume of known information categorically, primarily through citation to other online works.

Instead, you had a basket case of ultra-orthodox ideologues carving out a very niche set of contrary opinion posts that weren't well documented or continuously maintained.

Conservapedia isn't a right wing vanity project because of it's hot takes on Hitler, it's a vanity project because of the yawning gulfs in it's data set. Nobody engages with the site, because it is so heavily censored.

I get the sense Grokapedia will suffer the same fate. If a subject doesn't tickle Musk's interest, it'll either go undocumented or be a naked plagarization of some other online encyclopedia. And as soon as Musk loses interest entirely, support for the service will go the same way as so many private vanity projects.

Incidentally, Wikipedia's fate is also an open question. What happens when Jimmy Wales can't administer and fundraise for it anymore? How long until some hacks get their hooks in and corrupt it like so many other private media outlets?