The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?
Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the #fediverse .
That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.
Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?
Amen. Same problem here. But feel free to hit me up if you find someone who wants to do it. I wouldnt mind helping with design stuff since that meeds different skills than coding.
What's happening with #Lemmy and #Kbin these days? Are they both still being actively developed? Are they thriving? Did one win at the expense of the other? Or do they coexist without issue?
I've heard very little about either since the #Reddit situation blew up, but the situation with #StackOverflow has reminded me and it'd be great to understand w here things are with them now. Where would I go to see a functioning Reddit replacement on the #Fediverse?
As we all know by now, Stack Overflow has alienated their primary contributors by letting OpenAI train on SO's (CC-protected) content, and forcefully preventing countermeasures. Therefore, SO content will likely become worse and even more outdated as time goes on.
So, time to migrate. What's the preferred open source, community-run alternative to SO for everyone to migrate to? Here's one list of alternative software to run such sites:
@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.
I only just learned about this, so haven't signed up or checked out the communities and therefore won't endorse it, but Codidact just came across my desk. https://codidact.com/
Sounds like it can replace/augment those with experience levels #lmgt4y#StackOverflow#StackExchange
But actual specialists? Have -1 incentive now to write down their experience. 📉trends ensue.
@gittaca I think that technology per se does not carry any value. It just is and entirely exists within the confines of how it gets put to use, which is why I find it so frustrating that pretty much all the discourse from my internet bubble lives within the (capitalist) industry’s framing instead of focusing on the ways that it actually functions well and creating new frames.
@gittaca There’s so many opportunities here, I talk about the things I already use them for and find it sad that responses to that are “managers will misuse it anyway”. Like no, that’s my point, this is empowering to you, not the manager. And if they consider you a metrics driven pawn that can be replaced that was probably the case already.
But it makes me realize (and sad) I should just focus more on just blogging about what I do instead of trying to have a discussion on mastodon.