Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT - eviltoast
    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 months ago

      Stack Overflow was great when it appeared. The info was spread out incredibly wide and there was a lot of really shitty info as well. One place where it could accumulate and be rated was extremely helpful.

      But maybe it’s time to create a federated open source Stack Overflow.

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        7 months ago

        They also committed to providing open dumps of their data to make it free to all. At the start, they were doing all the right things.

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        7 months ago

        I once managed to find a pretty good alternative, but then I forgot its name. It was a very chill community unlike what Stackoverflow was recently with it’s toxicity (properly formatted question police, people being offended for less popular languages, etc.).