Wikipedia is a better source than people give credit. Start there, then dig into the sources at the bottom of the Wikipedia page.
Always Google about the reputability of the website you’re reading on. It will tell you whether or not you’re wasting your time.
Research articles aren’t hard to read, but the abstract and conclusion will tell you most of what you want to know, so you can easily save time by checking those.
Depending on your search engine there’s all kinds of things you can do from excluding results that contain specific words, matching exact phrases, or searching for specific file types.
I’d recommend finding a cheat sheet for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or whatever else you use.
A lot of libraries have online chat services where you can ask a reference librarian for help researching a topic. They can point out good sources and alternative search databases that might be more relevant than a general Google search depending on your query topic.
Librarians! They aren't just moving books around on carts. They actually study how to find information for several years. They are information finding professionals. (And other stuff like organizing, presenting, preserving etc of information.)
Even if you think a random librarian won't know about your topic, they are very likely able to help you find out about it.
Libraries are one of the few places where you can just walk in (or call, or chat, or email) and ask someone for help and get it free of charge no hassle. If you aren't near a library or you don't find your local library helpful, just reach out to some other one. They don't check if you live in the place. NYPL has very generous online materials and assistance. But you can try other cities.
Honestly, if it’s not open source and preferably on activitypub at this point, I’m not supporting it. No point in contributing to platforms that aren’t federated.
Walmart sells cheap janky tablets under the Onn brand. I think you can get one for like $50. May be better off getting a nicer used tablet for around the same price off Marketplace or craigslist. The walmart ones are real shitty lol
Checked out Tildes for a bit and it's probably where I'd go first if I had to choose, since I prefer conversation over memes and I do really feel like I may be looking for a forum experience.
But I decided in the end to focus on this place for now. It could use the activity and, more importantly, I got the sense that my time on reddit and sites like it have left me a little...too Reddit, still, for the type of interaction Tildes goes out of its way to curate for.
Sometimes I really do just want to show off something, but doing so is discouraged unless one intends to use it to spark conversation. Which I thought happened naturally, and I cannot begin every single post I make with, "İ do x, do any of you do x??"
İt would be painfully redundant, and of course they do underwater basket weaving or whatever. That's why they're hanging out, reading posts in the basket weaving section.
Will possibly reconsider in the future, but I feel atm that I fit better here.
Raddle and squabbles...I've not heard great things, though granted this was from people who didn't like them enough to join, so. Bias.
Both seem like politically extreme reddit wannabes, and looking into squabbles came off as somewhat...tumblr-esque? It seemed polite and friendly-ish, but it could be construed as creepy friendly and they were already fighting about whether or not toxic positivity was a thing.
I'm also concerned about comments from their own userbase that their dev didn't really have a clear road map and was mostly just doing things in all directions, all at once, by himself. So I'mma back away from squabbles til they settle a bit more.
Squabbles was fun when everyone first migrated from reddit during the blackout. But activity has died way down. I try to add some content here and there - but it's still mostly a ghost town with few regular people posting often (one of which is the programmer themself constantly posting content).
I hope Squabbles succeeds, but I'm finding Kbin a lot more active and exciting to visit regularly
I liked tildes’ interface a lot but I bounced off the culture hard. It’s so tightly controlled there’s very little diversity and very little actual interest in diversity. It comes through in the “no new ad-hoccommunities” and “all communities must fit in a rigid tree hierarchy”
I was genuinely surprised that Quora was brought up as a Reddit alternative since like you said it was basically AskReddit, NoStupidQuestions, etc 24/7
Someone I knew in high school that was a pain in my ass for a couple years. I got to graduate with all of my concurrent classes, while he ended up staying another year. But he was a nosy piece of shit, notably when I was dating someone he had. We're talking, no personal space respecting kind, just up in your face and wanting you to do something to him so he'd have a reason to cry about it to someone. What made it worse was he was special ed, so it's like even if we did something non-violent, he'd probably just play that card and get off scot-free.
Sometime after a few years after high school was over, he just died from something. I don't know and I didn't care. Just a matter of 'whatever, I'm still here and he isn't' sort of deal.
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