What use is this? It doesn’t seem to work similar to sci-hub. I just searched it for this closed-access paper and it didn’t have it. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073110519897731

That’s overkill for my needs.

Forums were the main thing everyone used 10+ years ago. Then Facebook & Reddit started to steal people away. But now that those big companies have shown how dangerous they are, I’ve tried to go back to forums as much as possible.

I use Lemmy too, but the lemmy software is still early in development compared to forum software. So I started up a forum instead of a Lemmy instance: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/

I’ve been trying various things from yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi and supplements and I haven’t really had success. I must be doing something wrong or too much or not enough idk.

Yes, you’re doing something wrong. Wherever you’re getting your health/microbiome advice from is a poor source. You can find better info here: https://humanmicrobiome.info/faq/

Fermented foods contain non-host-native microbes. Their benefits are hugely oversold. They will not restore your gut microbiome.

Anything that damages the gut microbiome. Ultra-processed foods are one of many things. Antibiotics may be the biggest factor.

If health is a topic you’re interested in, I created a forum that matches your description: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/

Hopefully, it won’t be too long before Xenforo forums can federate with Lemmy.

I’ve tried going to back to forums after leaving Reddit, but many of them are filled with the same type of unintelligent people you find on Reddit and other social media.

That said, I’d still stick with forums & lemmy over Reddit.

I think Lemmy was being astroturfed during the recent reddit API controversy and exodus of some redditors to lemmy. Lemmy seems much more normal now, whereas reddit is still manipulated, astroturfed, and botted to hell.

No. Lemmy > Tildes.

Tildes should be avoided as much as reddit: https://maximiliankohler.blogspot.com/2023/06/reddit-is-dangerous-humanity-needs-an-alternative.html

Tildes: I’m not a fan of the UI/whitespace, but the invite-only nature of it keeps it high-quality. It’s another nice & unique option, but has the same “single owner” issue, as Saidit, Reddit, etc., so it would be risky to dedicate time and effort to building a community there. In the blink of an eye your years of work could be terminated by one person. I’ve also read multiple concerns/complaints about heavy-handed moderation, similar to what occurs on Reddit.

Tildes update:

I made a Tildes account many years ago when it first started up. I knew the founder was a Reddit admin, and I’d heard that it was a haven for Reddit admins & power-mods, but I hadn’t spent much time there.

I recently made a post about the problems with Reddit, and while there were intelligent people and comments on there, the majority of votes went to people who were being extremely dishonest, and even outright lying; attacking me in every way possible while urging the admin to ban me. Neutral people don’t behave like that. So they couldn’t have made it more obvious that Tildes is merely an extension of authority-figures-of-Reddit with a different UI. All the same problematic people & behaviors exist there.

Based on the accusations one of them was making, and my history they were pulling up, one of them was either a Reddit admin or someone in cahoots with one of the Reddit admins that banned me. Tildes is invite-only, and the main accounts attacking me were brand new.

The Tildes admin removed my comments debunking the lies they were telling, and deleted my account.

My experience with Reddit has made me extremely hesitant to put in any amount of effort or commitment into any platform I don’t own/control myself, and this recent experience with Tildes greatly confirms that concern.

Dad had been a medical-researcher: he taught me to think.

He didn’t teach you very well. Stop spreading harmful misinformation.

And to the people upvoting the misinformation, you really need to do some basic research and critical thinking first. Why would there be hundreds of FMT clinical trials around the world for curing chronic diseases if it were so easy with probiotics? Why would 60%+ of Americans have a chronic disease if you could simply cure them with probiotics?

It makes it seem very possible that the comment and upvotes above are deliberate astroturfing by the pharmaceutical industry.

There’s an existing cure for most chronic diseases. Unfortunately, no one seems to care, so it will likely never be available.

OP, given your knowledge of news media, perhaps you have some ideas of how to get coverage of the issue? I’ve written to dozens of news outlets about it.