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[–] DontMindMe@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DontMindMe@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Right, but I'm thinking less "experts weighing in" and more "havers of info sharing it." I only (but perhaps confusingly) used the history example because most people won't have that info lying around.

[–] crazyfedora@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, what currency did the Merovingians use? Really I want to know. What coins did Charles Martel have in his purse?

[–] DontMindMe@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generally they didn't -it was a barter economy- but there were two exceptions. The first is the Roman solidus, a thin gold coin about the size of a US quarter, but those show up mostly in the context of extravagant royal transactions ("and king Childebert gave 6,000 solidi to the monastery of St. Martin," that sort of thing). The second are various small copper and silver coins minted locally but in very small quantities. I'm not sure if there is a consensus as to whether they were genuine currency or mostly tokenistic.

[–] crazyfedora@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for the answer! Is there a lemmy community to discuss these things? Om Reddit there are /r/Francish and other historical subreddits, but I'm new on lemmy and have not figured everything out yet I think.

[–] DontMindMe@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know, sorry, it's been a while I used reddit myself.

[–] honeyontoast@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DontMindMe@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] distractionfactory@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] fishy_2_0@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Agree with you on TIL and damnthatsinteresting i guess we'l see how things go forward from here

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

This. I participate in homebrewcomputers on reddit, would be nice to see something like that here, although the website is small enough that posting diy computer stuff in "Open Source" would probably be acceptable.

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] distractionfactory@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks! Both of those give me "couldnt_find_community" 404 messages, but I've has some issues loading lemmy.ml, it might be my client.

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Weird, these communities aren't appearing when searching for them on beehaw. Yet they do in fact exist.

https://lemmy.ml/c/sciencefiction

https://lemmy.ml/c/electronics

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something like /aww on reddit, I love animals.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need shitposting like okbuddyretard and copypasta and stuff.

[–] harbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There’s a shitposting community here but it isn’t very active

[–] weastie@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] EponymousBosh@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Seconding ebikes! (Reptiles are chill but a reptile community would not be helpful for me personally)

[–] Mert@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Artistic ones, like music production, digital art, etc. maybe?

[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Once I wrap my head around how instances work, I'd love to get an instance up and running (or join an existing one)

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure how to link communities yet but I'm aware of two: fuck_cars on lemmy.ml and fuckcars on lemmy.ca

[–] fishy_2_0@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

fuckcars already exists technically in two forms !fuckcars!fuckcars@lemmy.ca fuck cars specifically and !citylife@beehaw.org for more general city talk

[–] privetmoshi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Cooking (/eatcheapandhealthy is also great!), gardening, and movies.

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I decided to be the change I wish to see in the world and created the !kittyterminal community, thinking I might make one for announcing new communities too

[–] a887dcd7a@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] EponymousBosh@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

THE_PACK and vexillologycirclejerk

[–] MetalAirship@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was looking for an RC car community like r/rccars on reddit, but I couldn't find one so I created it myself. !rc_cars@lemmy.world

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] thepounder1@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I moreso want two communites to be active again. !gamedev@lemmy.ml and !pixelart@lemmy.ml

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

So ... starting your own community is pretty straight forward here.

You get moderation powers too, that can be shared, even between users on different lemmy instances.

See, eg, https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] harbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I’d like to see an Apple community

[–] greasemonkey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Something like ask mechanics and just rolled into the shop

[–] SapphicSandwich@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Skydiving ones

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