lemmyreaderMay 10, 2024

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.

Show threadlambaliciousMay 10, 2024
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.
Show threadMiaouMay 11, 2024
They have already access to SO’s CC content, why would they get it from the fediverse?
Show threadlambalicious

They already have it.

I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.

May 11, 2024 at 8:58pmWeb
Show threadMiaouMay 12, 2024
Yes, but you mentioned importing old content is problematic, and I don’t see why?
Show threadlambaliciousMay 14, 2024

Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.

I’m fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.