• Don't Mind Me@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago

    Thanks to enshittification and cracking down on pirating, it will become more and more difficult to find reliable info online. I’d like a community where people volunteer to fulfill simple research requests from other users using their own privately-held sources, maybe providing a few PDF pages for verification.

    E.g., someone could make a post asking “What kind of currency did the Merovingians use?” And I, a historian, could provide them with a short, scholarly excerpt that answers the question.

    Yes, I do think the mainstream internet will get that shitty.

    • naeap@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      /r/AskHistorians had (ok, still has) such a standard. would be amazing to see more of that

    • honeyontoast@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Forgive me if I’m ignorant of something, but how would it be different from Wikipedia? Crowd-sourced information, cited and reviewed by peers? It has flaws, but no more than a Lemmy community would have.

      Interestingly the Merovingian dynasty wiki page does have info on coinage but doesn’t mention the barter economy you describe so you might be able to contribute there if you’ve got the sources to back it up.

      • Don't Mind Me@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the coin example was a terrible one, because both r/AskHistorians and wikipedia answer those kinds of questions really well. Just take the basic concept and extend it to, well, anything, especially fairly specific questions that wikipedia wouldn’t answer. Wikipedia can’t have everything, and other sources will become rarer and rarer.

  • a887dcd7a@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Actually I enjoyed to follow non-overthrow-related prepping stuff on reddit. I mean the subs where they present handy solutions for rather realistic problems and scenarios, not these where they romanticise a civil collapse, or extensive weapon hoarding and usage.

    Also paintball, mag-fed paintball, archery, hiking and bushcrafting.

  • distractionfactory@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    Science Fiction, amateur radio, electronics… and maybe some equivalent of the popular (popcorn) subreddits; damnthatsinteresting, wtf, showerthoughts, TIL.

    Ultimately I don’t know yet. I’m hoping to see some new stuff that I didn’t think to look for. Any topic can be interesting if people are passionate and not toxic.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah Reddit was chock-full of cat subreddits, having those kinds of communities would greatly increase the appeal of Lemmy beyond tech, FOSS, politics and gaming.

  • thepounder1@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    A leathercraft community would be the bees knees. Good place to share tips/tricks, ongoing projects, answer questions or seek advice, that sort of thing.

  • YuzuDrink@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I really have enjoyed game-specific communities on Reddit in the past – Dragon Quest and Pokemon in particular; also the /tipofmytongue and /tipofmyjoystick were quite helpful. And /speedruns was super nice!

    Also gardening and hot pepper growing; and since I live in Japan a place to discuss current events and life over here is also quite useful.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    How does one even make a community anyway. Need to ask the admins for something? I tried ans the last button press never did anything.