The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?
Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the #fediverse .
That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.
Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?
The power of SO was never the software. It was the relentless effort the team put into community building and making sure site was valuable both as an interactive experience and as an archive.
You can’t code yourself out of that effort.
Yea. That’s more or less what I had in mind. This isn’t merely a matter of writing the software. Like I said, many of the pieces are basically here already. It’s building the place/platform, which has to include a whole bunch of just “work” including the moderation that you mention.
Additionally: adoption is a feature you can’t design. Any site that’s just people talking is either firmly established or in deep trouble. The middle ground cannot last.