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simple@lemm.ee 7 months agoThe video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:
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Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they’re done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)
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A sidebar you can’t remove that promotes their content
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Fandom hijacked the community’s Mcdonald’s wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement
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Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages
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Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still…
EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 7 months ago
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Seems like on that last one someone could go through and change all the content in every page to a link to the new wiki. A PIA? Certainly, but at least it would get the ball rolling and use the built up SEO from fandom to help your new site get views.
ysjet@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Unfortunately they just use a bot to revert those. You’re not allowed to truly migrate off fandom, all you can do is fork your own data and try to out-SEO the fandom wiki, because as soon as you put it.on fandom, fandom owns it too.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I wonder if you could use a bot and AI to write fake information and post that instead. Seems like fandom wouldn’t have enough game specific info to judge the accuracy, especially if it happened over time.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah… Gamespot, that place existed and it was terrible always. Then you look at the other things Gamespot own and realize they all got butchered in terms of reliability and impact.
108@kbin.social 7 months ago
When the OG crew left, so did I.
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages
What can we do with this information, I wonder…
CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The video also calls out that one of the challenges in moving off of fandom is SEO. The fandom sites often are above the new sites even when the fandom site becomes a pile of unmaintained, vandalized garbage. This suggests that vandalism actually helps fandom.
The best thing we can do is not visit the sites and don’t link to them, instead using and linking to their new sites.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You’re the best, thanks
theneverfox@pawb.social 7 months ago
Nice write-up, I appreciate it
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fandom seems like my experience on Fextralife
buddhabound@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And then you learn about Fextra’s embedded twitch player that artificially inflates their twitch view count and pushes out smaller content creators who are actually trying to engage with a game’s audience.
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
God, I hate constantly seeing their channel with 50k+ views on Twitch. It’s insane that embedding the player throughout their entire website isn’t against TOS.
captainphatty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The good thing is that they are going to stop abusers of the embed system like Fextralife, the new policy was announced at TwitchCon blog.twitch.tv/…/everything-we-announced-at-twitc…
pyrflie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can block the element behind the player with the UBlock Origin element picker and it won’t comeback. I took the time to build this into my UBlock filters list since I regularly use the WotR Wiki.