Did you browse the older posts in the community already? I guess it might be nice to add some good links to the sidebar though.

Yeah, and I found some good things there, but a lot of the posts were quite old and I wanted to contribute to some activity here as well and give people new to Lemmy since those posts were made to contribute with their favorite resources. Links in the sidebar/Wiki would be very nice as a starting point!

In general it very much sounds like you are overthinking it. I started composting by throwing foodwaste in a bucket and it worked just fine 🤷

I quite enjoy the research, so I wouldn't say I am overthinking it. I am just looking for some recommended reading from the community to get started with the research. There's so much stuff online, and a lot of it seems AI-generated, so I try to get a more curated starting point from actual humans who are already into it, as in my experience direct recommendations from people are much better than starting from zero. :)