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Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative (ioc.exchange)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15471632

Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :

SEqlite

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.

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[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago

Would creating a Lemmy instance with that content be enough? Doing so the already enough large Lemmy community could already interact with it.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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