This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Because real historians aren’t the ones using r/ask historians and answering on there
You don’t know anything about r/AH do you?
I’ve read the posts. They are almost all very obviously unreaserched and unknowledgeable answers that no real historian would ever spew
What are you talking about? It is BY FAR the subreddit with the most consistently throughly cited responses. Comments get removed even just for not having sources.
You are not talking about the same subreddit, please check yourself. Or maybe provide some citations of your own if you’re going to say that content of that caliber is “unresearched”. I mean who the heck are you??
Yeah but if allows awful sources for one. I’ve seen absolutely trash sources being the only thing on top questions. You can go through there yourself and see the ridiculousness of the answers on the subreddit. It’s awful. It’s very clear that the answers aren’t by actual historians as any education in it at all would make people see how awful the answers that get upvoted so very often are
