Could have a presentation for the C-suite for a major company, post some tenuous claim related to what I intended to present on, and have people with PhDs in the subject citing papers correcting me with nuances that would make it into the final presentation.

It's one of the key things I miss about Reddit. The scale of Lemmy just doesn't have the same rate and quality of expertise jumping in to correct random things as a site with 100x the users.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 62 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The major problem with reddit is that you could never really trust the credentials of the person you were talking to. They might have been PhDs or they might have been 13 year olds who just learned to Google. It amazes me how many times I saw a highly upvoted comment posted about a subject that I knew a lot about, but was just so blatantly wrong.

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah voting on content has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with feelings.

People just vote for their side of any discussion, regardless of validity.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 11 months ago

Only if it's something controversial. If it's something technical with no political affiliation, people vote for answers that sound right. Thankfully Cunningham's usually comes to the rescue on time.

[–] Feyter@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

To be fair this is not a Reddit thing and it can be found in the fediverse too. I can remember some of such situations where a person just posted wrong stuff but in a very confident way. I was able to prove him wrong later but nobody cared anymore.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

cunningham's law is intended to be used recursively

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I know what you're trying to do, but that is not the case /hj

[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As long as they provide appropriate sources then it doesn't really matter who they are

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's no clear winner between a 13yo who can use a search engine and a crusty old PhD who can't keep up with changing times.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago

Especially if you move 0.1% away from that PhD's particular specialty.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I mean, unironically exactly why people think LLMs are smart.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 11 months ago

Unless the thing falls under non-commercial electronics or computing. The community on here is skewed towards that for obvious reasons.

[–] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I always kind of felt like those voices began to be drowned out the more and more popular reddit became. You're correct about Lemmy's scale, but there is certainly a sweet spot. I'm happy knowing Lemmy hasn't yet reached its own, and reddit's is long gone. I'm happier here and it's likely only going to get better.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Errmmmmh achstually.., lol