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