@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.
It may work for tech related communities (stack overflow). But for communities like Mathematics, English, etc. it'll be hard to move those people into the new system.
I had an online discussion about a Federated-Yelp that raised some interesting points that might apply to SO as well -- How do you “federate” the features that DON’T fit into the standard social media formulae? Things like “accepted answers” might only work on a centralized server.
Also, this might fall under the threaded discussion WG. I’d love to talk in more detail if you’re ever interested.
@dansup there used to be a full-blown (non-federated) remake of Stackoverflow in a GH project. Firing it up would give nearly the same UI and a whole bunch of the gamification features.
I was only mildly interested at the time, and did not star or anything. Later on, seeing "federated SO" thread for the N-th time I tried to find it again on multiple occasions. No luck, unfortunately.
Such project would be a great basis to add #ActivityPub to.
@dansup I can't see why it can't be a telegram group with topics and hashtags , so why not federated #telegram ( it #Matrix) where op actually controls their content
About the modding, yes there re admins , who can create topics , privileges can be voted in or out
@dansup does stackoverflow really have anything that the other link aggregators / ranked forums like lemmy or kbin doesn'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 post?
@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.