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Off the top of your head what are three websites you TRUST and use fairly often? Could be on any topic.
https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://www.antwiki.org/
https://www.inaturalist.org/
MORE (as based on responses that I know of):
https://www.weather.gov/
https://math.stackexchange.com/
https://docs.python.org/3/
https://britastro.org/
https://davidheyscollection.myshopblocks.com/pages/david-heys-steam-diesel-photo-collection-01-home-page-and-photo-links
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/
@futurebird Re: math.SE, I trust the users but not the owners.
What's off with the management?
@futurebird Stack Overflow/Exchange has a real techbro problem. AI partnerships, blog full of techbro biz scam bs, mods who object to rules about misgendering ppl (see how many have mention of Monica in their display names), ...
That sounds like more of a problem with the users, who I have always found to be rude with an inflated sense of the value of their time and knowledge.
Not much sprit of sharing and joy of learning too much RTFM and "how dare you ask a question about tech on the tech question website?"
@futurebird It comes from above and what type of users they court.
Everyone there is so insecure about being a know it all. It's really tiresome. I find how deeply hurt they are about being told when they are wrong just as sad as how eager they are to tell other people they are wrong in the way designed to make that person feel maximally bad about being wrong.
But at least if they tell you you are wrong they are right about it. On X you will be told you are wrong in the same way but it will be lies.
@futurebird @dalias maybe more typically right than X, but I specialize in weird shit that will get immediately and falsely labelled as incorrect by many/most normies.
I mean, I've even started leaning into that as a way to find new things... for example, when I observe that certain topics are resolutely no-go by conventional wisdom, and take that as a sign to go there and think about things carefully.
But I agree, I have never participated much with SE sites, as I hated the gamification of "oh you can't do *that* unless you have XXX internet points", but I've run into this phenomenon many times on reddit, even been downvoted into oblivion when I was absolutely correct and the other upvoted guy was absolutely incorrect.
@leon_p_smith @futurebird SO/SE invited it to get *so much worse* by adding tons of sister sites of the form "4chan, but respectable and gamified". Things where people would necessarily be expected to treat bigoted opinions as valid answers, like basically all of the religion topic sites, as well as politics, economics, history, etc.
If they'd stuck to technical expertise topics, they wouldn't have encouraged these type of folks to move in.