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Wikipedia should counter-offer X changes its name to SeX for >= amount. Jimbo can even show Musk how to recruit and retain far more effective and cost-effective and robust moderation culture like the GOAT they are.
Take the money then we would just call it the site formerly known as wikipedia. Similar to how x is simply formerly known as twitter.
Im assuming this is just more effort by him working for Russian interests. Wikipedia being too credible for the war in Ukraine.
Is there anything that stops Elon Musk from buying Lemmy or Mastadon? Even if everyone were to migrate over to the Fediverse, what stops these websites from being bought as well?
That seems exactly like something Elon would try to do, just like the idiot that tried to takeover freenode. I'd love it if the creators of Lemmy and Mastodon were able to swindle some money from him.
I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:
- Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
- It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
- If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?
I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.