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That's interesting!
I understood and partially agree with the problem, but what is the solution?
still need to drill down the specifics but here this goes...
everything will revolve around "Amateur Research Papers" or ARPs so to speak,
there would be options to do "commentary content".
i would categorize "commentary content" as short twitter-like posts, reels or blogs,
calling them commentary as, that's what they usually are, commenting/expressing one's opinion or feeling towards something, and that something HAS TO BE research-related, that's the main idea.
every commentary content, might have references to other commentary content, but it will have a link to the original research paper(s) whether its on this site i.e an ARP or a professional research paper on arxiv or something,
that way, any form of content on this site, that is brief & might be unclear has a clear context of origin, where that thing originated from and a network of related commentary content around it.
there are other nitty-gritty details but this is the general idea.
It is too broad, and you are trusting in the user to post something research related.
Usually, scientific content creators have to shape things to fit in the platform that they are publishing (YT, TikTok, IG, etc...). And those platforms want views and money, not quality of content.
Creating a social media with a different weight algorithm (as is this one), can be a solution for that, but will the users migrate to it?
I'm still missing a solution idea:
users migrating to it is gonna be the main problem, at best the platform can provide easy content import features, maybe even auto-import after authenticating into their youtubes, twitters & custom blogs...
and yes, it seems broad, because honestly, i haven't settled on a concrete & focused solution idea yet, I'm still watching how this idea develops in my mind while building but, if i have to give an answer, i'd say to do the following:
provide a way for people who are willing to learn & have an interest in research to start from zero, learn, grow & eventually earn as an independent researcher & also collaborate with other similar minds.
great idea +1