• KingOfNoobs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I miss that thing where any time there was a difficult question, someone with real expertise would jump into the comments. And sometimes it was someone who literally wrote the book on the subject. Sometimes it was the person who invented the thing being talked about. It was crazy. It happened all the time. It seemed like everyone was on Reddit and you could really trust you were getting solid answers.

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      1 year ago

      Fwiw, I’ve been able to get good advice on a few things already. I had a geologist here give me details on a rock I found at the beach, for instance.

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      1 year ago

      I felt like there were a lot of blowhards on reddit and many highly voted comments would get it wrong. It happened enough times in areas I’m knowledgeable in so I almost never trusted a comment without others validating it. Maybe without the numbers lemmy doesn’t have as vast or varied of a knowledge across its users but I’m actually more trustworthy of it so far.