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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[–] Citizen 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do we have a community on lemmy to ask questions like stackoverflow?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think for specific platforms, like rust questions in the rust community.

[–] abhibeckert 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't be very good.

Most people want answers, not questions, and with Stack Overflow the answers are usually already there and easy to find. Plus they are maintained and kept up to date, so if something was correct six years ago but isn't anymore, that will usually be obvious before you try the solution.

Some kind of federated stack overflow alternative could be awesome, but Lemmy is not it and never will be.