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Anyone considering how to break the already? Any alternative work in progress?

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Evil Puniko

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

Michael Baumgartner

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

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.

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.

Samuel Philipp

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

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.

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

tauli

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

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.

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.

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.
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‘

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 -.-

char

@Codeberg

Actually since yesterday I'm pondering about the idea to build a 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 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.

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."

Drew DeVault

@Codeberg passing note: SO Q&As are CC and they offer database dumps

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

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