chianeko
mccReceived an email this morning and I am now looking for an alternative to StackOverflow for tech support-y stuff
It seems like it wouldn't require that much modding on kbin/lemmy in order to make a viable federated StackOverflow clone… hm.
Cassandrich@mcc Wouldn't the license let you just prepopulate it with a scraped copy, too? 😈 AIUI SO is forkable.
@mcc So far all the scraping utilizing that was SEO spam farms, but if you had a good faith fediverse fork intended to be the new primary instead of SEO spam, I bet you could get traction and steal all the mods.
ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon@mcc yeah arguably a lot of the work would just be frontend anyways.
Aranjedeath@mcc my favorite file sync software, syncthing, uses discourse for tech support forum. Which, apparently, just added an activitypub plugin.
ActivityPub Plugin
:discourse2: Summary Discourse ActivityPub allows you to publish Discourse posts via ActivityPub so they can be read on services that support ActivityPub such as Mastodon. 🛠 Repository Link GitHub - discourse/discourse-activity-pub: Adds ActivityPub support to Discourse. 📖 Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse If you’re unfamiliar with ActivityPub start by watching this short video: When you’re ready to get started setting up the plugi...
[moved] stereo griever@mcc the thing is, stackoverflow is so powerful because it has global search, working moderation (including tags), high SEO due to so many valuable resources concentrated on this few domains. imo fedi is not gonna work here.
@mcc maybe instead of trying to fit fedi in here, we should do the same but, y'know, operated by a non-profit. something like what AO3 is to Wattpad.
@selfisekai Other than SEO, these are just features. Lemmy/Kbin have search that works well already, and global search is not easy to host but easy to create— if anything Mastodon Fediverse has to had to do active, constant work to *prevent* the development of global search for this fediverse slice which otherwise would have occurred naturally at least four times.
@selfisekai Could you do this as a singular standalone site run by an NPO? Sure, I guess. Doesn't the administrative overhead get obnoxious though if a central not-for-profit entity has to approve every single new moderation team for every new niche of questions?
@selfisekai For either the NPO or a federated solution tho I can think of one easy potential way to recruit moderators right this second, given that from a distance it seemed like the moderator teams were quite upset about SO's initial pro-AI steps. I don't know if that was because of an anti-AI sentiment overall or because it made their jobs harder, but it seems like a possibility worth exploring.
aeva@mcc you could call it "SnackOverflow"
Elias Mårtenson@mcc same. Every single thing I read was awful.
Bee O'Problem 
@mcc I especially love how SO is doing this when the entire community has been very loudly saying "no" to allowing AI answers of any sort.
This explains why the company was trying to roll back those policies
nev@mcc oh for fuck's sake
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@mcc rip, time to go back to bbs
Stevoisiak@mcc Ugh. I'd already been eyeing Gamefaqs as an alternative to Arqade, their sister site for game related content. This accelerates the process.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Wow, they found an answer to "how can we further accelerate the fall in answer quality on our site?".
@mcc perhaps you could ask here on the fediverse? There's plenty of people who I'm sure would be down to help :)
Erin@mcc it is an embarrassment. They've also released multiple statements saying
* they still don't believe they're actually obliged to do the community data dump (they want to reserve a lot of rights beyond the CC-BY-SA licensing)
* only people who freely admit to using GPT/other AI should be suspended for making AI answers
it's all so dumb and self-destructive.
I still cannot comprehend how many people want to use LLMs for text search. What idiocy.
Mithical@mcc I'd encourage anyone looking for an alternative to Stack Overflow to check out the Codidact Project, an open-source Q&A site run by a non-profit organization (disclaimer: I'm involved with it).
Specifcially, an alternative to SO would be Software Development: https://software.codidact.com/
You can find the policy on AI-generated content at https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288194.
Specifcially, an alternative to SO would be Software Development: https://software.codidact.com/
You can find the policy on AI-generated content at https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288194.
Viria
mpoletiek@mcc individual project communities on matrix and irc. #unseatdiscord
Olivier Halligon@mcc reminds me of what MDN tried to introduce their ExplainAI feature in their JS reference documentation — thus providing incorrect answers and docs to users 🤦 https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
(They reverted it recently following th backlash: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/ai-explain-postmortem/#launch_and_feedback)
MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari
Summary MDN's new "ai explain" button on code blocks generates human-like text that may be correct by happenstance, or may contain convincing falsehoods. this is a strange decision for a technical ...
ComplexedOne@mcc I'm a fan of Spiceworks. More focused on SysAdmin stuff but it is really helpful for me.
calvin 🛋️ @mcc their goal is to get me to solutions faster? To be honest, I’ve loved Stack Overflow and all the Stack Exchange websites. I never felt like it took too long to get to a solution through them. I highly doubt adding “AI” to something that already works fine will somehow be better.
linus@linus I'm sorry, I don't think I understand what you're trying to tell me here.
programming.dev - A collection of programming communities
I’ve been day dreaming about a social media platform built entirely on a peer-to-peer (P2P) model, leveraging the existing BitTorrent protocol. The idea is to decentralize content creation, distribution, and moderation, eliminating the need for centralized servers and control. Here’s the high-level vision: - Posts as Torrents: Every original post creates and seeds a torrent file on behalf of the OP. - Upvotes as Seeds: Upvoting a post downloads and seeds the post, reinforcing its availability. - Comments as Torrents: Each comment generates and seeds a torrent file somehow linked to the original post. - Comment Upvotes as Seeds: Upvoting a comment downloads and seeds the comment, amplifying engagement. - Text Only: to avoid exposing users to potentially graphic content (due to lack of centralized moderation) this platform would initially be limited to text content only. This would also drastically reduce the compute and bandwidth requirements of the seeder. - Custom BitTorrent Clients: Open-source Social Media BitTorrent clients would display the most popular social media content by day, week, month, or year. These clients would allow users to seed only the content they find valuable thus organically moderating the network of ideas. Relevant content continues to be seeded and shared, while outdated or unpopular content fades due to a lack of seeds. This setup seems like it could address key issues in traditional social media—privacy, censorship, and centralized control—while naturally prioritizing high-value content. Why hasn’t a system like this been widely adopted? Is it a matter of technical limitations, lack of a viable economic model, or something else? I’d love to hear your thoughts.