The Stack Overflow rugpull is another data point in my head which discourages me from contributing any content to a hoard owned by a corporation.
I’m hoping that ActivityPub will one day enable SO-style knowledge bases in which the individual nuggets of content are owned by independent servers and cannot be purchased by anyone.
@drahardja Anyways, I just hope we come back a bit to those places. I still do much IRC, and discourse, and then slack, discord¹, github, and so many other platforms, depending on the project. Now even to me mail seems like a nuisance. Mastodon is a hit an miss.
¹ that name alone makes me every time pause and ponder if I really want that answer..
@mdione I was a huge fan of Usenet until the spambots came and ruined everything. Discord is impenetrable and un-archiveable, and ripe for another rugpull, so I wouldn’t put anything there that has long-term value. Corporate Slack is actually acceptable for corporate institutional knowledge, but not much more than that.
I liked SO because it’s basically a searchable, self-organizing wiki that bubbles things up and down depending on their usefulness. I haven’t seen anything else quite like it. The gamification only matters if you’re into high scores and that kind of thing—I basically ignored it.
It's not just Google, of course. When you trust your data to ANY #cloud service, you can get rugpulled at any moment without warning. Remember, they have the de-facto control over the data, and you don't.