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Anyone considering how to break the #StackOverflow #monopoly already? Any #federated alternative work in progress?

10 May at 11:40 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
19 comments
Evil Puniko

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de you can just use the forgejo issues feature πŸ‘

10 May at 11:48 | Open on mk.absturztau.be
Thiago, the one called 'Jedi'

@Codeberg Lemmy is the closest one right now

10 May at 11:51 | Open on bolha.us
Michael Baumgartner

@Codeberg Maybe #Lemmy could be one, although it is more famous as a Reddit alternative. I am not very familiar with it.

10 May at 11:52 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
YurkshireLad

@BaumiCoder @Codeberg Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, not StackOverflow. Two completely different entities.

I'm not aware of a federate alternative to StackOverflow. I think there was an open source equivalent a few years ago, but I can't remember its name.

10 May at 12:22 | Open on mastodon.social
maegul

@YurkshireLad @BaumiCoder @Codeberg

Well the Reddit alternatives would likely be a good place to start. There arguably isn’t too much to add or modify to get started on a working substitute.

10 May at 12:50 | Open on hachyderm.io
MeowcaTheoRange
Samuel Philipp

@Codeberg I'm only aware of codidact.org but I dont think it is federated. At least it's open source.

10 May at 11:58 | Open on social.sp-codes.de
Andre_601 :blobfoxcofe:​

@Codeberg I don't know of any existing, but I feel like a concept like GitHub's discussions system in a federated format would be an interesting idea to consider...
Maybe in the future with @forgejo adding discussions (Are there any plans for that) and federation becoming more finished, this could become a reality.

10 May at 12:12 | Open on blobfox.coffee
Andre_601 :blobfoxcofe:​

@Codeberg Looking a bit further, I found codidact.org/ which seems to be an open-source alternative to StackExchange solutions already present.
And there was some discussion about possible ActivityPub intergration? Tho, from what I could get is there not much there...
meta.codidact.com/posts/288235

10 May at 12:17 | Open on blobfox.coffee
tauli

@Codeberg being federated in the way mastodon is, would make it hard to search.

10 May at 12:23 | Open on chaos.social
Codeberg.org

@tauli A problem that is probably not impossible to solve.

Without wanting to go into details here, because there are probably smarter minds involved with federation who could come up with a better strategy, this is a simple idea to approach this:

- instances are often specific to topics, e.g. space, biology etc, similar to how the StackExchange network already works.

10 May at 12:26 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Codeberg.org

@tauli Instances with related topics could follow each other to also search their index (or replicate the remote content in a local search index) to provide useful results from other instances.

This allows to keep the overall index small enough, because you don't have to index everything but only instances relevant to your's focus.

10 May at 12:27 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
affine
@tauli @Codeberg Searching in a distributed network is harder than in a centralized one, but the problem with search on fedi is social - any time someone wants to make an inter-instance search engine, half of fedi loses their shit and threatens violence.
10 May at 12:30 | Open on yourwalls.today
π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬

@Codeberg Maybe you could run an own Lemmy instance with focus on that and be the change you want to see? πŸ‘

10 May at 12:39 | Open on gts.0x7be.net
Zeronior

@Codeberg It would take ages… Firstly, you would need a well structured website. You would need many people filing entries. And then you have to push it through social media.
In Germany, I always use selfhtml.org for the basics of HTML, CSS and JS. For PHP, I mostly use php.net and only for specific questions I have to look somewhere else. Of course my answer is to be found on stackoverflow -.-

10 May at 12:39 | Open on ruhr.social
char

@Codeberg

Actually since yesterday I'm pondering about the idea to build a #federated version of stackoverflow, nothing written yet, I'm reading, researching.

Also, right now I was checking this stack exchange sqlite db under CC BY-SA 4.0 to check how useful and doable would be import this data and using as a base for the federated version.

Also wondering if we could use this data somehow to train our own opensource AI to help the community, but I'm do not have knowledge on LLM/AI things. Please if there is any expert I would appreciate the opinion on that.

seqlite.puny.engineering

@Codeberg

Actually since yesterday I'm pondering about the idea to build a #federated version of stackoverflow, nothing written yet, I'm reading, researching.

Also, right now I was checking this stack exchange sqlite db under CC BY-SA 4.0 to check how useful and doable would be import this data and using as a base for the federated version.

10 May at 12:50 | Open on ioc.exchange
Deus

@Codeberg Viewing it as another type of social network, "...building the software is the easy part. Building a community around the Social Network software is hard - very hard."

10 May at 12:51 | Open on charcha.cc
WerySkok :verified_think:

@Codeberg I'm not sure that a decentralized knowledge base is a good idea. It should look more like Wikipedia β€” run by a nonprofit organization, on open source software, allowing exporting dumps

10 May at 16:21 | Open on mastodon.ml
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