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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:54:12 JST myrmepropagandist

   Off the top of your head what are three website you TRUST and use fairly often? Could be on any topic.

   https://www.wikipedia.org/
   https://www.antwiki.org/
   https://www.inaturalist.org/

   MORE (as based on responses that I know of):
   https://math.stackexchange.com/
   https://docs.python.org/3/
   https://britastro.org/
   https://davidheyscollection.myshopblocks.com/pages/david-heys-steam-diesel-photo-collection-01-home-page-and-photo-links
   https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/
   https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:54:45 JST Rich Felker

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     @futurebird Re: math.SE, I trust the users but not the owners.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:57:54 JST Rich Felker

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     @futurebird Stack Overflow/Exchange has a real techbro problem. AI partnerships, blog full of techbro biz scam bs, mods who object to rules about misgendering ppl (see how many have mention of Monica in their display names), ...

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:57:56 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias

     What's off with the management?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:00:11 JST Rich Felker

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     @futurebird It comes from above and what type of users they court.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:00:12 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias

     That sounds like more of a problem with the users, who I have always found to be rude with an inflated sense of the value of their time and knowledge.

     Not much sprit of sharing and joy of learning too much RTFM and "how dare you ask a question about tech on the tech question website?"

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:01:19 JST Rich Felker

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     @futurebird We're on the verge of worrying about that since they refused to ban AI slop...

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:01:20 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias

     That said this isn't a list of perfect websites. Just those that are reliable and useful and not full of lies, ads or junk.

     I don't worry that a stackexchange answer is just... made up.

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     toni✨🧠 (toni@zug.network)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:06:37 JST toni✨🧠

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     • Rich Felker

     @futurebird @dalias That fucking Monica thing really embittered me towards the site. :blobfoxnotamused:

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:07:10 JST Rich Felker

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     • toni✨🧠

     @toni @futurebird At least all the bigots out themselves by putting her name in their display names...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:08:56 JST Rich Felker

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     • toni✨🧠

     @futurebird @toni Monica was a mod who was fired or quit (I forget which) over her objection to a strong rule against misgendering, including intentionally using they/them pronouns as a statement that you don't acknowledge someone's gender, calling it "forced speech".

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:08:58 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • toni✨🧠

     @toni @dalias

     What was the Monica thing? I missed this. It sounds like something I'm glad I missed but I'd like to know I suppose.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 00:42:23 JST Rich Felker

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     • Leon P Smith

     @leon_p_smith @futurebird SO/SE invited it to get *so much worse* by adding tons of sister sites of the form "4chan, but respectable and gamified". Things where people would necessarily be expected to treat bigoted opinions as valid answers, like basically all of the religion topic sites, as well as politics, economics, history, etc.

     If they'd stuck to technical expertise topics, they wouldn't have encouraged these type of folks to move in.

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     Leon P Smith (leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 00:42:24 JST Leon P Smith

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     • Rich Felker

     @futurebird @dalias maybe more typically right than X, but I specialize in weird shit that will get immediately and falsely labelled as incorrect by many/most normies.

     I mean, I've even started leaning into that as a way to find new things... for example, when I observe that certain topics are resolutely no-go by conventional wisdom, and take that as a sign to go there and think about things carefully.

     But I agree, I have never participated much with SE sites, as I hated the gamification of "oh you can't do *that* unless you have XXX internet points", but I've run into this phenomenon many times on reddit, even been downvoted into oblivion when I was absolutely correct and the other upvoted guy was absolutely incorrect.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 00:42:26 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias

     Everyone there is so insecure about being a know it all. It's really tiresome. I find how deeply hurt they are about being told when they are wrong just as sad as how eager they are to tell other people they are wrong in the way designed to make that person feel maximally bad about being wrong.

     But at least if they tell you you are wrong they are right about it. On X you will be told you are wrong in the same way but it will be lies.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 09:29:02 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @futurebird
     https://www.swift.org/documentation/
     (as a reference-quality example of what online reference materials should look like)

     https://caniuse.com
     (kind of a pair, counting as one, as an example of turning data into a rich, task-focused reference)

     https://oeis.org
     (not as often as I like, but jumped immediately to mind! so cool)