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Fireship – The shocking decline of Stack Overflow [satire] (piped.video)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
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[–] aloso 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is like Reddit, which is used a lot to ask questions and get help. But StackOverflow fills a different niche, it's meant to be useful to as many people as possible and stay up to date. This is why

  • there's a distinction between "comments" and "answers" (comments can be used to request additional information, and for meta discussion)
  • both questions and answers can be modified by other users, for example to
    • add more information, or remove unnecessary details
    • correct outdated information
    • fix typos and formatting
    • rephrase sentences that are confusing
  • a question can be closed as duplicate, so people always find the oldest thread of the question with the best/most detailed answers
  • before submitting a question, you get a list of related questions to avoid creating a duplicate question
  • questions have tags, making them easier to search for
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't used Stack Overflow in a while so I forgot about most of those features, and as long as it also uses ActivityPub it doesn't really matter that much if it is a different platform. I think some of those features could even be useful on Lemmy (tagging posts would be nice and maybe community-editable posts could be a thing that communities could choose to enable).