• Aloso@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is like Reddit, which is used a lot to ask questions and get help. But StackOverflow fills a different niche, it’s meant to be useful to as many people as possible and stay up to date. This is why

    • there’s a distinction between “comments” and “answers” (comments can be used to request additional information, and for meta discussion)
    • both questions and answers can be modified by other users, for example to
      • add more information, or remove unnecessary details
      • correct outdated information
      • fix typos and formatting
      • rephrase sentences that are confusing
    • a question can be closed as duplicate, so people always find the oldest thread of the question with the best/most detailed answers
    • before submitting a question, you get a list of related questions to avoid creating a duplicate question
    • questions have tags, making them easier to search for
    • CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t used Stack Overflow in a while so I forgot about most of those features, and as long as it also uses ActivityPub it doesn’t really matter that much if it is a different platform. I think some of those features could even be useful on Lemmy (tagging posts would be nice and maybe community-editable posts could be a thing that communities could choose to enable).