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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities? (social.coop)
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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?

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See: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/112416604462962336

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But we’re missing an instance dedicated to that

There are instances already for:

What we need is to have people using them and willing to feed it with content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.