For me it’s been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

  • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Oh, r/askhistorians is precious.

    Maybe a History community on here would be nice, at least, until there are enough folks for more specific spots.

    • luna@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      The thing is that askhistorians is, uniquely among subreddits, both staffed by professionals in the field and heavily moderated. It is an investment by credentialed, dedicated professionals, and would not work otherwise. I think something like that would be highly attractive, but I caution anyone against trying to resurrect it without access to those credentialed, dedicated professionals. Otherwise it becomes shittyaskhistorians but unironically; at worst it would be ancient aliens.

      • Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        It sounds like a decent Lemmy community as a whole, allowing those professionals a lot of control over how questions work and such while still allowing pretty good visibility? I’m not totally familiar with how federating works yet so that might not work as wellw as I’m thinking.

        • luna@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Yes, it’s probably the best information source on reddit because of the combination of expert knowledge and strict moderation. I’m sure the strict moderation is why the experts spend their time there, because they know they won’t have to deal with the average redditor.

          • Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Absolutely, I know that any time questions on my field of expertise has popped up on reddit I can be fairly hesitant to share just knowing the amount of effort it would take to answer in a way that feels appropriate combined with the fact that you’ll get contrarians popping out of every corner to claim their pop science interpretations are in-fact correct. I can’t imagine trying to do that when it comes to something like history, which I personally think is going to have a much higher minimum involvement in general due to the very political nature of much of it.