Madrigal

This shit pre-dates “AI”. AI just lets them do it faster and cheaper.

Stop feeding it.

Your money, or your personal data, used for whatever damned purpose they choose.

That’s really the choice.

It was the last version I needed. Six months gaming on Linux and I haven’t looked back.

The way I see it, they think GenAI is the new portal to information, the way search has been for the last 25-30 years. They want to control that portal, because it’s worth trillions over time.

This is why they’re cramming it into everything and worrying about use cases later. It’s a land grab.

Technically easy. A baseline wiki is not a particularly complicated application.

The challenge, as always, is shifting the user base, especially content writers, when starting from a small knowledge base. You would need to offer a significantly better experience - or KYM would need to suffer serious enshittification - to have a real hope of doing that.

IMO the one feature that might make an alternative stand out is contextual knowledge surfacing. In other words, if a meme is mentioned in content somewhere, the explanation is automatically made available to the reader without needing to leave the current site/page. Kinda like how some glossary systems work, or Viva Topics before MS stupidly killed it.