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How Quora Died (slate.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You mean like c/asklemmy?

I think Reddit almost had it for awhile. There was a point when stuff like r/askhistorians and the like actually worked, and you'd get fairly good answers. That's one place where the Fediverse isn't up to speed yet, for that sort of thing you need a critical mass of "everybody uses it" to really achieve.

So far Lemmy is at its best in the hobby subs because three people with the same hobby will still have fun talking, but if I say "nutritional anthropologists of Lemmy: when and where did humans begin eating cheese?" it's gonna be crickets because there's probably not a nutritional anthropologist to be found among us.