The StackExchange communities could easily be migrated to the Fediverse. Aside from embedded advertising on StackExchange's website, is there any catalyst that could trigger this?
The StackExchange communities could easily be migrated to the Fediverse. Aside from embedded advertising on StackExchange's website, is there any catalyst that could trigger this?
There is already a FOSS stack exchange clone: https://codidact.org/
SE’s DB schema is public (https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schema-documentation-for-the-public-data-dump-and-sede/2678#2678), and SE content is CC-by-SA 4.0 with database dumps regularly posted to archive.org: (https://archive.org/details/stackexchange).
All that is to say: there is a lot of groundwork done and the SE data could be ported over…