Bye bye, #StackOverflow

[smallcircles@social.coop]

Bye bye, #StackOverflow

(I decided to keep my account. My statement that SO has some of my work, yet stole it. But I will not, can not contribute anything more.)

https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/427/580/622/580/217/original/de0c6c4f01b7491b.png

[smallcircles@social.coop]

Onwards we march towards decentralized Q&A on the fedi

[janvlug@mastodon.social]

@smallcircles I never really liked using #StackOverflow. I do not really know why actually, but I was always reluctant to use it.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@janvlug over time I got a lot of benefit and also direct help from SO. But the enshittification was always looming.

It is the same for LI btw, where I have some uses for it (until a federated alternative arrives). I recently edited my profile indicating I'm not playing the LI game, though. Should still finish that, but my CV will be elsewhere

[janvlug@mastodon.social]

@smallcircles I have exactly the same. I also have the plan to put my CV on my own site and put on LI just a link to that.

A federated platform for #professionals, #vacancies, and #CVs woud be great.

Any recommendations are welcome.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@janvlug there used to be Flockingbird project under development, but the maintainer pivoted to building a job search bot + site, and then abandoned that.

https://github.com/Flockingbird

[ggpsv@social.coop]

@smallcircles Is there anything in this space yet?

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@ggpsv

@hobs did a search on non-federated codebases to build from: https://mstdn.social/@hobs/112414438147753719

And @andre reminded me of @retrospring that has several open #ActivityPub issues on their tracker. Mentioned in this thread, also on the topic of finding alternatives: https://fedi.jaenis.ch/@andre/statuses/01HXH5R3NQ4FER2TXS68YVGGW6

[luceos@fosstodon.org]

@smallcircles @janvlug I had a federated job search site on my backlog to look into. But I think platforms should be able to federate such content quite easily when the right type definition is created? Same then applies to resumes, I'd assume.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@luceos @janvlug

Yes, I think so too. Creating some MVP might be a bit of a low-hanging fruit if one is already well-underway with fedi expertise.