Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?
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@thomasjwebb @grishka @dansup forgje is a fork of gitea maintained by codeberg. And they are working on federation. @grishka @thomasjwebb @dansup I feel as if git is already the federated github. It's missing some features. But other VCS are adding issue lists, etc. @dansup isn't that Lemmy? I would like to have a federated LinkedIn with job board that federates the job listings. @dansup @JustineSmithies often thought this would be a great idea @dansup @dansup does stackoverflow really have anything that the other link aggregators / ranked forums like lemmy or kbin don't other than an automod closing functionality if you don't have enough karma and the ability for a thread's OP to pin a reply? I don't know about federated, but there is one run by a not-for-profit, using open source software, which I've switched to. @dansup Yes. After Bandcamp. I had an online discussion about a Federated-Yelp that raised some interesting points that might apply to SO as well -- How do you โfederateโ the features that DONโT fit into the standard social media formulae? Things like โaccepted answersโ might only work on a centralized server. Also, this might fall under the threaded discussion WG. Iโd love to talk in more detail if youโre ever interested. @dansup Why? On Mastodon, I cannot see the full conversation, only the posts my server knows about. On a federated SO, would I see only the answers my server knows about? How can I know I'm looking at the best then? What's the point of decentralizing questions, which have just one "most correct" answer? @dansup The problem with doing that to avoid ChatGPT *et al* is that all they have to do is build their own server and federate. They can then scrape every answer. However, it would be nice to have a non-corporate system. Painful to rebuild Stack Overflow's database. |
@dansup it seems like lemmy can be that with the right skin. We also really need a federated alternative to github. Gitea is partway there but thinking also about how github is sort of a linkedin for programmers.