Baldur BjarnasonMay 12, 2024
One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonMay 12, 2024

People keep forgetting that "by developers, for developers" was a big part of Stackoverflow's initial pitch. It was founded by people who most of the community implicitly trusted. They said all the right things. But as soon as they took VC-funding it was just a matter of time.

I think we know better now than to trust something like a VC-funded community site, but remember that SO was founded in 2008 at the tail-end of the Web 2.0 funding bubble

Show threadJason Punyon

@baldur Yes, agree with all this.

And there is one difference between this enshittification and all others. We have the data, because we sold out to ourselves before we sold out to the VCs. I hope it can make a difference, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't. It's going to be incredibly difficult for a new Stack Overflow to grow in a world where search engines don't work.

https://seqlite.puny.engineering

SEqlite

May 12, 2024 at 4:55pmWeb
Show threadBoudMay 12, 2024

@JasonPunyon @baldur

Looks like 16.9 GiB for stackoverflow.com.sqlite.br (16.9GiB) and roughly 6 GiB for the rest. Maybe people running #SearXNG instances could add searches on data dumps like these?