I live in the hope that the insightful comments I left on reddit over my long tenure there will eventually be part of a FOSS corpus, once the corpos can’t extract anything of competitive value from it anymore. I’ll be long dead, but my comments will live on.
Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Never again will I help provide content to a VC-backed service.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
isaakengineer@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
for a life of mine, I can’t understand why people don’t value knowledge enough to make their own website and be proud of it; PS. I have made a load of CMS and now working on new approach to web dev …
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Because it won’t be used and won’t be seen, that’s the sad reality of it. I do host a small personal blog run of org-mode+hugo, but it gets less visitors than a library at midnight
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What exactly do you accuse Stack Overflow for? As far as I know this service has always been free to use and data is easily downloadable.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Free to use” on a VC-backed service just means you’re the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I’m accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.
Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
have you seen: archive.org/details/stackexchange
Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
reddit.com