[malfist]

That's what finally broke by reddit addiction and relying on the Internet for advice.

There's lots of people out there that mean well and have strong opinions and state things with confidence that they don't necessary know for truth.

I recall thinking that I don't critically examine what appears to be expert input from redditors in a field I know little about, but those same voices in areas I am an expert in are almost always wrong, or nuanced in some way to make them useless. I finally drew the line and realized it wasn't just my field that had wrong "experts" it was every field.

I think the final straw was when I asked a really complex question about a aberration in my telescope in the astrophotography subreddits and got very authoritative sounding responses that were far far off base, I realized it wasn't just software engineering.

I wonder how much of it is teens and young adults without a lot of experience giving advice that's the problem here. Probably not, but something to think about. That person giving you advice on how to navigate your relationship with your spouse might be a 13 year old who's never dated anyone before.

[pixl97]

Heh, just remember this when you hear someone complaining about how much LLMs make up and hallucinate. Humans just happen to be excellent bullshit generators when it comes to topics they are uncertain about.

[CowIsBrown]

Every year reddit gets dumber. And yet it's still the one gem and generally only gem you can find on google.

I miss the forum days. People knew what they were doing. Upvotes were supposed to save us and give us top notch content, instead it's now making us dumber.

[gwill]

i hope you've found cloudynights.com for any telescope related discussions.

[malfist]

I'm active on there! It's a lovely resource