On Reddit, communities could have their own wikis or knowledge base articles in a separate place from where the discussion happened. I don’t see that kind of functionality in Kbin, so I’m wondering if there is a federated wiki type of thing somewhere out there.
I just figured since the Fediverse is so awesome for everything else, why not shoehorn a wiki into it? lol.
You’re absolutely right though, a pinned thread could accomplish a similar function as a Reddit wiki page.
The thing with wikis (actual wikis, i mean) is that anyone can edit them (in principle, at least), and there’s plethora of wiki sites out there, and its easy to host your own (well, as easy as hosting your own kbin instance). So federation feels much more purely an organizational change; the only change it offers to the user is the possibility of integration with other fediverse apps. And wikis aren’t social media sites, so I’m not sure what the appeal of that is. Do i… see it in my feed when someone edits the “Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates” page? Is browsing the wiki from within kbin actually more useful than opening it in a new tab?
Distributed ownership of a wiki is definitely a good idea, but i don’t see the benefit of it being federated.
You’re absolutely right, and I think you’ve helped me figure out a bit more precisely what I’m looking for. Particularly this:
Decentralization is what I’m after, not necessarily federation.