We’re too small to support subs that require niche talent. They way the fediverse was managed during the Exodus really hamstrung our growth. Things like ml being the default with an incredibly biased mod team. Also, the fundamental structure of the Lemmy side of the fediverse works against creating the kind of network effects which result in things like AskHistorians.
Because every instance of Lemmy is effectively or at least potentially “an entire reddit into itself”, community becomes fracture and fragmented. Networks have different emergent properties at different scales. A combination of moderation, design, and youth currently prevents us from being able to nurture the kinds of communities (which took YEARS to build on reddit) like AskHistorians.
Completely agree that curating that type of collective knowledge has a huge barrier to entry. I do love the historymemes community! I suppose what I would really like to see in the meantime is a more serious discussion-based history community. Even if we don’t have the type of base for credentialed contributors, it would be cool to have somewhere that people could discuss those types of in-depth topics with an assumed higher level of academic rigor built in.
Best I can do is !historymemes@lemmy.world .
We’re too small to support subs that require niche talent. They way the fediverse was managed during the Exodus really hamstrung our growth. Things like ml being the default with an incredibly biased mod team. Also, the fundamental structure of the Lemmy side of the fediverse works against creating the kind of network effects which result in things like AskHistorians.
Because every instance of Lemmy is effectively or at least potentially “an entire reddit into itself”, community becomes fracture and fragmented. Networks have different emergent properties at different scales. A combination of moderation, design, and youth currently prevents us from being able to nurture the kinds of communities (which took YEARS to build on reddit) like AskHistorians.
Completely agree that curating that type of collective knowledge has a huge barrier to entry. I do love the historymemes community! I suppose what I would really like to see in the meantime is a more serious discussion-based history community. Even if we don’t have the type of base for credentialed contributors, it would be cool to have somewhere that people could discuss those types of in-depth topics with an assumed higher level of academic rigor built in.