I think it would be relatively easy to write a stackoverflow type frontend for Lemmy. That could be done in any language, and would work similarly to the existing lemmy-ui. Then you would get federation for free, and the Lemmy backend would only need some minor changes.
There are many possibilities in writing new frontends for Lemmy. One could also create a traditional forum with chronological threads and no voting (like phpbb).
Because Lemmy does not have karma. If it did, and it was like Reddit, it would be based on the popularity of your posts and comments, with every vote being the same weight. This is different to Stack Exchange, where people who are already well established in the respective community are able to boost correct answers even more than with a single vote. This could sound like a recipe for parochialism, but in effect you end with a high probability for high quality answers.
This doesn’t mean that a reputation (and not “karma”) system couldn’t be implemented in Lemmy.
where people who are already well established in the respective community are able to boost correct answers even more than with a single vote.
This assumes people who are competent are always right. StackOverflow fosters idiocy and ignorance. They even hide comments to the question which often start with “I have no idea why this is the top answer” and continue with a list of reasons why it’s not a good idea to just utilise the solution. They often get a lot of upvotes but ultimately are ignored because their font size is smaller and they don’t have a green arrow with 450 updoots next to them.
Do we really want to continue supporting mindless copy&paste based programming?
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I think it would be relatively easy to write a stackoverflow type frontend for Lemmy. That could be done in any language, and would work similarly to the existing lemmy-ui. Then you would get federation for free, and the Lemmy backend would only need some minor changes.
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There are many possibilities in writing new frontends for Lemmy. One could also create a traditional forum with chronological threads and no voting (like phpbb).
Am I correctly looking at it a bit like wordpress, but you got to write your own theme and that’s all? (I’m not very advanced in these things)
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Why not just use lemmy?
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Because Lemmy does not have karma. If it did, and it was like Reddit, it would be based on the popularity of your posts and comments, with every vote being the same weight. This is different to Stack Exchange, where people who are already well established in the respective community are able to boost correct answers even more than with a single vote. This could sound like a recipe for parochialism, but in effect you end with a high probability for high quality answers.
This doesn’t mean that a reputation (and not “karma”) system couldn’t be implemented in Lemmy.
This assumes people who are competent are always right. StackOverflow fosters idiocy and ignorance. They even hide comments to the question which often start with “I have no idea why this is the top answer” and continue with a list of reasons why it’s not a good idea to just utilise the solution. They often get a lot of upvotes but ultimately are ignored because their font size is smaller and they don’t have a green arrow with 450 updoots next to them.
Do we really want to continue supporting mindless copy&paste based programming?