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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.
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The social contract was that everyone was a custodian of that library. That's how we got Wikipedia.
Social media and monetization broke that social contract. Another building was constructed beside the library. People were checking out books from the library and selling them at the market.
Now with LLMs, those books are being burnt. There's a trillion dollar giga-sized building next to the derelict library and the fast becoming defunct market that is industrial scale mass producing pulpy books.
Wikipedia still exists, in fact it's expanding every day...
And the fascists have been going after it wholesale.
Yeah, and communists, and pedophiles, and greens, and...
Wikipedia has always been the target of people trying to bend public opinion, that's why it has the processes in place that it has, and [citation needed] all around.
it still exists and will likely continue for decades