On the one hand, I didn't want this essay to be about Astraea. But at the same time, I couldn't NOT mention them, and I don't want people thinking they were all good and shiny.
Their site is the easiest place to find some of the data that I share in my history posts, but that's because they're like a strangler fig who at least in some cases seem to have choked out the original source! (And the secondary zombie source that is Astraea's Web is so badly sourced that I can't really use it on its own; I have to go digging through archives and zombie back-ups to find the proper citation.)
On the surface, Astraea's Web is a good site with a lot of good resources... but it exists in part because Astraea helped crush the people who MADE those resources, so their site is all that's left standing. And I couldn't really talk about that in the essay itself (it's overlong already) but I had to say it SOMEWHERE.
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Their site is the easiest place to find some of the data that I share in my history posts, but that's because they're like a strangler fig who at least in some cases seem to have choked out the original source! (And the secondary zombie source that is Astraea's Web is so badly sourced that I can't really use it on its own; I have to go digging through archives and zombie back-ups to find the proper citation.)
On the surface, Astraea's Web is a good site with a lot of good resources... but it exists in part because Astraea helped crush the people who MADE those resources, so their site is all that's left standing. And I couldn't really talk about that in the essay itself (it's overlong already) but I had to say it SOMEWHERE.
--Rogan