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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities? (social.coop)
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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?

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[–] rglullis 3 points 6 months ago

Most of these niche communities lend itself for community support and discussion around specific problems. There is only so much "news" that can be had around specific topics.

I usually favor bias towards action in these cases: there is nothing bad about just posting questions to a specific community (e.g, Python) and until it starts becoming a problem. When/if people complain about the excessive number of Q&A posts, two things could happen:

  • The "I'm here for the news" people are in the majority, and the minority will then go to create an alternative "Q/A" community, like python-help or something.
  • The "I'm here for the news" people are in the minority, and they will either unsubscribe or create a separate "news-only" community, like python-planet.

Anyway, I'm all for the idea of using Lemmy for Q/A communities and I'd rather we have people pushing for it than waiting for some "idealized" version.