8mo ago

Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?

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I feel like there's a missing fediverse product for this.
And by "missing" I mean popular, because I'm sure it exists already.
- now that Lemmy is working on supporting plugins soon, I think this could all be done inside Lemmy
- @sik0fewl I think Lemmy can do most the job.
  But we’re missing an instance dedicated to that, a place people can port their S.O. answers to, and start building language or domain specific communities
  
  But we’re missing an instance dedicated to that
  There are instances already for:
  Programming
  Software Power Users, Tips and Tricks
  System administration
  VOIP
  Photography
  Hi-Fi Audio
  Car and Motor
  What we need is to have people using them and willing to feed it with content.
  
  @rglullis posting content (news about a programming language, frameworks and related tooling) to a particular forum doesnt make it useful as a Q&A, that is largely what I see in most cases.
  
  Most of these niche communities lend itself for community support and discussion around specific problems. There is only so much "news" that can be had around specific topics.
  I usually favor bias towards action in these cases: there is nothing bad about just posting questions to a specific community (e.g, Python) and until it starts becoming a problem. When/if people complain about the excessive number of Q&A posts, two things could happen:
  The "I'm here for the news" people are in the majority, and the minority will then go to create an alternative "Q/A" community, like python-help or something.
  The "I'm here for the news" people are in the minority, and they will either unsubscribe or create a separate "news-only" community, like python-planet.
  Anyway, I'm all for the idea of using Lemmy for Q/A communities and I'd rather we have people pushing for it than waiting for some "idealized" version.
  
  Community creation is open for all users, you are free to create a community dedicated to Q&A if you want a community explicitly for it.

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