19
The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem? (hachyderm.io)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by maegul@hachyderm.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the #fediverse .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Yes and no, I'd say. I think there's something to be said for specialising UIs and platforms, and SO strikes me as something that benefits from some of that. Lemmy could certainly be the base of a SO substitute, IMO, but putting it on a separate instance with some specialised UI and policies and even dedicated development of some additional features/tooling on lemmy core as is necessary, could go quite far to making a SO work well.

Federation could still work well, though friction would likely develop between the UIs, which could hopefully be managed over time.

this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
19 points (71.1% liked)

Fediverse

17717 readers
1 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml