Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They already have it.

  I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.

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  • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, but you mentioned importing old content is problematic, and I don’t see why?

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.

      I’m fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.

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