I agree with the other commenters. There’s really no good way to do this… You need both lots of people wanting to ask historians stuff and lots of historians willing to answer people’s questions. Lemmy lacks both!!

I’m not sure there really is a need for that right now, anyway. The reason there’s even a need for such specific comms is because generalistic comms get overburdened and messy, I’d say. Lemmy doesn’t have that issue because there aren’t enough people asking questions for it to be an issue, so there is no real need for an askhistorians comm.

Mind you, I think it’s cool, and if Lemmy grows it may become useful as well, so I do think it’s good that you started it.