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Actually since yesterday I'm pondering about the idea to build a #federated version of stackoverflow, nothing written yet, I'm reading, researching.

Also, right now I was checking this stack exchange sqlite db under CC BY-SA 4.0 to check how useful and doable would be import this data and using as a base for the federated version.

Also wondering if we could use this data somehow to train our own opensource AI to help the community, but I'm do not have knowledge on LLM/AI things. Please if there is any expert I would appreciate the opinion on that.

https://seqlite.puny.engineering

EDIT:

A better place to download the dump content, with more interesting tables, like the one with the Votes; the other link the dumped data only contains two tables Users and Posts. Right now downloading the whole data related with stack overflow, and will take some time due my humble home internet connection, so I didn't have the chance to take a look at the data, but I guess that's the interesting thing.

here:
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange

SEqlite

^{seqlite.puny.engineering}

blogs. They often have answers not found on stack overflow. And they can have answers from stack overflow(it appears this is legal now). Copied answers can have attribution,” and alternative/better presentation.

If search on Mastodon improves, bloggers who post here will have their answers discovered and commented on. Google will still rank them.

But the main point is that blog owners will continue to own their content and may even choose to block or even subvert ML spiders.

There's https://topanswers.xyz/ as alternative, but I don't know of any #federated alternative yet.

Maybe @samcarter knows if that's something that have been discussed?

what about https://dev.to as #StackOverflow alternative?

#AGPL #GPL #FOSS

DEV Community

A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey.

^{DEV Community}

Well #lemmy with a dedicated decentraliced indexer like https://yacy.net/ but pirpose build and integrated could fill the gap.

So no there is project on it.

Well smal forges have a similar discovery disadvantage if compared to e.g
github.

So a P2P indexer that could be integrated per network and would get content by that network injected instead of stupid web crawl could solve that.

Similar as to how you can use milisearch and integrate it purpose build into projects.

#Discourse is really sweet to host and it has a vast plugin community.
https://www.discourse.org/plugins

And themes to control what fields to expose
https://meta.discourse.org/c/theme/61

Fwiw, some of the discourse devs were in the original stack overflow team.

Plugin directory

Extend the functionality of your Discourse community with our official plugins.

^Discourse

another thing that people who are new to Kobo should know:

Kobo tracks your book-reading by default. It does this to do shit like pop up congratulatory notes if you read a lot of books, or give you 'stats' on your reading habits. In order to perform this, it basically encodes your reading habits and sends them to Google Analytics in a not-directly-attributable-to-you manner, via a fake domain called 'devices.kobo.com.'

So, obviously some folks do not want this behavior. What you can do is make a hosts file with a line like 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com google-analytics.com in addition to the default localhost entry, then put that in a directory called etc and tar | gzip the thing up into a file called KoboRoot.tgz. Plug in your Kobo device, copy that file to the .kobo directory, and unmount your device. The Kobo will see this file as a firmware update, and apply it -- overwriting the default /etc/hosts file with the one you made. Now it can't reach Google Analytics to report anything.

Congratulations on reducing the functionality of your device!

Here's the file I used: http://sciops.net/downloads/KoboRoot.tgz You can use it for reference or use it directly, but I'm not responsible for your Kobo.

There's a ton of other shit you can do to your device -- add fonts, different reading programs, the list goes on, but this is a good start.