Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative
@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de 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 b...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15471632
Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :
These are CC-BY-SA 4.0 remixes of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dumps. 100% Unendorsed by Stack Exchange, Inc.
They are minimal. They provide the data you probably care about and the data you need to comply with the original license in SQLite format.
There is a Foss alt already https://www.codidact.com/
Maybe just supporting federation feature for it?
I would prefer this. And even without federation it's a very good Stack Whatever replacement already.
Would creating a Lemmy instance with that content be enough? Doing so the already enough large Lemmy community could already interact with it.
I think it would make sense to have a specialised forum for it. The question & answer format requires data that Lemmy just isn't able to fully replicate as it is.
Also the community editable nature of stack exchange is really unique and more like a wiki than a standard forum/branching discussion threads, where we're presumed to have sole ownership of all of our posts.
The question & answer format requires data that Lemmy just isn't able to fully replicate as it is.
Other than marking the correct answer and having user score/badges, there is anything else?
Also the community editable nature
You're right, I just forgot that people can edit your questions and answers.
Seems like it would be good to request Discourse and NodeBB to offer similar features
👍 Interesting idea.
People who are looking to start a SE alternative but start with the idea of importing the original SE data dumps are already Doing It Wrong. Much of the issue that has led to the desire to fork SE comes due to the license of the posts and content, which lacks the NC (NonCommercial) component of Creative Commons. Without that component, any attempt to make a Fediverse alternative just ends up in Yet Another Endpoint that can be freely siphoned for data by corporations, for AIs, etc.
Or used by people in any commercial product. Is there really enough people to justify a info exchange of just hobby projects?
See here's the thing: Creative Commons is not an exclusionary license. If I want to make commercial use of something that has a CC-NC license, I explicitly can ask the author for a secondary license limited to the usage and scope that I need. The important thing here is that the author still retains control, as well as a data point of who is profiting from their stuff and how.
They have already access to SO's CC content, why would they get it from the fediverse?