Cross posted from: lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/486150
This made me chuckle because of some of the truth in it:
What universities actually do, however, is publish papers nobody reads in journals nobody can afford, in order to make their numbers go up in ranking systems nobody understands, so they can attract research funding and student enrollments so they can pay people to publish more academic papers.
Yes and some number of those students leave the university with new ideas and connections. Maybe some of their papers were an exercise to focus their expertise? Not saying universities are the only place that one can find new ideas and connections with the world either.
pedroapero@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
When I tried Bookwirm (a while ago), it didn’t look like there was any kind of metadata sharing between instances. Each book was present on each library, thus destroying the user experience (per-instance ratings and reviews).
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
This shouldn’t be the case. While books appear to be present on each library (=instance), reviews etc federate between them! They refer to each other.
pedroapero@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Here is an example for a famous book on two random instances:
Maybe there’s something I’m missing?
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
I wanted to contribute a while back and found a bunch of duplicate authors. Unfortunately there wasn’t any way to merge them and the relevant issue has been open for years.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
Well, at least it hasn’t been autoclosed I guess 😅