@Codeberg I'm not sure that a decentralized knowledge base is a good idea. It should look more like Wikipedia — run by a nonprofit organization, on open source software, allowing exporting dumps
@Sibshops@Codeberg Yeah, LLMs are a bit different than Stack Overflow. Sure, they don't insult you for asking questions, but they can't refuse to answer, so will happily give you nonsense if they have no idea. Not entirely unlike some people... ;)
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Yeah, I know they give nonsense sometimes. The nice thing about using it to code is you can easily check their nonsense to see if it is right.
A lot of times you can tell them that this is nonsense and how to fix it and they will.
LLM's have not been very helpful with visual things like CSS or asking them to create an SVG. But with backend code they are pretty good.
@Sibshops We asked about a knowledge base. LLMs will never replace this, because they can only reproduce, not answer new questions. They can be your resource intensive search feature for a knowledge base, but that's not what we are interested in.
@Codeberg Viewing it as another type of social network, "...building the software is the easy part. Building a community around the Social Network software is hard - very hard."
@tauli A problem that is probably not impossible to solve.
Without wanting to go into details here, because there are probably smarter minds involved with federation who could come up with a better strategy, this is a simple idea to approach this:
instances are often specific to topics, e.g. space, biology etc, similar to how the StackExchange network already works.
@tauli Instances with related topics could follow each other to also search their index (or replicate the remote content in a local search index) to provide useful results from other instances.
This allows to keep the overall index small enough, because you don't have to index everything but only instances relevant to your's focus.
Not just topics, but related questions. That feature of SO is extremely useful when you initially find questions that are almost, but not quite your question. That would be fairly easy to add to a federated system.
It occurs to me that while #LinkedData is a fairly bad choice as the extensibility mechanism for #ActivityPub protocol, it should be in theory a rather good choice for the knowledge network and navigation thereof, of the content aggregating into the various federated SO instances.
TBL once asked about using #SolidProject to create a #FAQ and I suggested adding federation to the mix:
Well the Reddit alternatives would likely be a good place to start. There arguably isn’t too much to add or modify to get started on a working substitute.
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