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Is there a federated/non-profit alternative to Stack Overflow? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Considering how SO is killing itself rather quickly, it would be interesting to have a platform with similar structure but taking users interests instead of profit of executives. I am not saying their system is perfect, I have made a post in the past on their meta community regarding how hard it is for new contributors to start. I remember hearing about an alternative but after searching for it, I couldn't find anything.

Does anyone know such platform?

Edit: After I posted I came across Codidact. I will try using it! Feel free to post other alternatives though!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

There are many Discourse forums for various programming related tools, services, and programming languages. I've shared 3 examples below.

https://discuss.python.org/

https://discourse.julialang.org/

https://discourse.jupyter.org/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Discourse is neither federated nor non-profit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Discourse is offering an AP plugin - not sure what it does: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Allows you to publish Discourse posts via ActivityPub so they can be read on services that support ActivityPub such as Mastodon. For more information, please see https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

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