Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :

SEqlite

These are CC-BY-SA 4.0 remixes of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dumps. 100% Unendorsed by Stack Exchange, Inc.

They are minimal. They provide the data you probably care about and the data you need to comply with the original license in SQLite format.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They have already access to SO's CC content, why would they get it from the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They already have it.

I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you mentioned importing old content is problematic, and I don't see why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.

I'm fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.