dansupAnyone building a federated Stack Overflow?
Ben Pate đ€đ»@dansup Yes. After Bandcamp.
I had an online discussion about a Federated-Yelp that raised some interesting points that might apply to SO as well -- How do you âfederateâ the features that DONâT fit into the standard social media formulae? Things like âaccepted answersâ might only work on a centralized server.
Also, this might fall under the threaded discussion WG. Iâd love to talk in more detail if youâre ever interested.
utzer 
@benpate @dansup probably not a real problem, this partly incompatibilities exist since the Fediverse is around, so 14 years or so, the only way is to discuss ideas and then implement some solution that works for all sides.
In the past there was Diaspora (still exists) that was the big player, that had fewer functions than for example Frienidca, they somehow arranged and it worked quite well. Today Mastodon is the big player, now others arrange their projects around the reduced feature set that Mastodon had... It kind of works, mostly.
In the past there was Diaspora (still exists) that was the big player, that had fewer functions than for example Frienidca, they somehow arranged and it worked quite well. Today Mastodon is the big player, now others arrange their projects around the reduced feature set that Mastodon had... It kind of works, mostly.
@utzer @dansup Yeah. We could always just build a new network with special features that would require an account on a Q&A -style server.
But an emerging feature of "fedi" is that you can take your identity everywhere. I'd really like to support this somehow, too.
Perhaps it just means using main Mastodon (or whatever) account as a "universal inbox" for notifications. But then we link you back to a site with SSO, so you can interact more richly there.
Dunno.. TBD.
I'll take any/all advice.
KichaeBut an emerging feature of "fedi" is that you can take your identity everywhereTaking your identity everywhere and having access to all of the features offered somewhere else are different things, though.
Like, you can post to Lemmy groups from Mastodon-based websites, but you don't get the forum or content-aggregator features like post titles, cross-posting, etc. And you can communicate with people on Misskey or Friendica or Hubzilla, but that doesn't mean you can do everything that people using sites based on those platforms can do. Or you can comment on Wordpress blogs, but that doesn't mean that you can post to them.
You can interact with everything, but that doesn't mean anywhere else has to treat you like a first class user.
Like, you can post to Lemmy groups from Mastodon-based websites, but you don't get the forum or content-aggregator features like post titles, cross-posting, etc. And you can communicate with people on Misskey or Friendica or Hubzilla, but that doesn't mean you can do everything that people using sites based on those platforms can do. Or you can comment on Wordpress blogs, but that doesn't mean that you can post to them.
You can interact with everything, but that doesn't mean anywhere else has to treat you like a first class user.