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@[email protected] 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

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.

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
    211·
    6 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.netEnglish
      33·
      6 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.

      • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        The question & answer format requires data that Lemmy just isn’t able to fully replicate as it is.

        Other than marking the correct answer and having user score/badges, there is anything else?

        Also the community editable nature

        You’re right, I just forgot that people can edit your questions and answers.

        • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          Presentation matters. Replies to posts about minor items aren’t displayed as prominently. This means the important answers are large and in charge, while debates about the merits of Rust in this situation are pushed away.

          • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.

            How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.

      • Dame @lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Seems like it would be good to request Discourse and NodeBB to offer similar features

      • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Wait what i didnt know about any community editable aspect, can you share some examples?

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Basically any member is allowed to edit anyone else’s question or answer. The changes may go up before or after review by mods depending on the member’s trust level. I’ve had my questions changed before. It can be kind of annoying but I understand they’re doing it to maintain some level of quality.

          • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Is that the only difference? That feature doesn’t seem great tbh. I’d love a wiki on lemmy though especially one that integrated to the point you can one click add a question + answer directly to the communities wiki

            • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              No, there are a number of differences. There’s questions & answers under which there are comments, and a bunch of other functionality. It’s so different to a standard threaded forum that you may as well build a new system from scratch. I honestly think it would be less work than trying to shoehorn lemmy into this role, and have another fediverse ecosystem built around it.