• sik0fewl
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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.

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      @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

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          @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.

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            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. The admin team is willing to help out with moderation if that is what’s holding you back.

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            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.