• pyrflie@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    No worries I too miss AskHistorians. Reddit could have been more.

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      8 months ago

      literally the modern burning of the library of alexandria is going on and no one* is talking about it

      *ok probably not no one im just being overdramatic

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          8 months ago

          there’s just so much value to historians being accessible to the public. there’s a reason universities pay them tenure despite not bringing immediate material benefit to the local community or economy, and reddit seemingly magically allowed for a forum that was even more open and accessible than a university.

          and now that’s being fucked over by IPOs and LLMs.