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?

@fediverse

  • Die4Ever@programming.dev
    4·
    8 months ago

    IDK if we’re really missing any software features, but I feel like it’s a good opportunity for a Lemmy plugin

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Yep.

      I think some sort of flair like feature for marking posts as questions and marking accepted or best answers as such are missing. Flairs are desire anyway. Tags perhaps as well.

      Then, if there are to be “super votes”, such as the OP accepting an answer or even a moderator highlighting an answer, that would be new too.

      If the UI can communicate with a plug-in, I’d imagine that could all be plugin side.

      what is the situation ATM for plugins affecting the UI in custom ways?

      But yea, this seems like maybe a perfect test case for the plug-in system.