• slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    10 months ago

    They hold the wiki data hostage under the guise of creative commons licence.

    What’s that? You want to remove your game from our website? No.
    You want to reference your official wiki on wiki.gg or someplace else? Na, we will remove that link and our SEO will always be on top of search results.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    28·
    10 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?

    • Flipper@feddit.org
      33·
      10 months ago

      Have you been on there? It’s just one giant advertising banner.

      Also if you are corporate you can just pay to replace a whole page with advertising, like McDonald’s did with grimace.

    • FundMECFS
      11·
      10 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.