Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

https://lemmy.ml/post/15471686

Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15471632 [https://lemmy.ml/post/15471632] > Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/] was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to : > > > SEqlite [https://seqlite.puny.engineering/] > > > > 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.

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/braching discussion threads, where we’re presumed to have sole ownership of all of our posts.

Seems like it would be good to request Discourse and NodeBB to offer similar features