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  • I asked ai to give me an image for a super hero for the fediverse and got this:

    Honestly, it seems like a federated solution is in order, since this seems to be the most effective way we can have content on the internet that isn’t ‘owned’. Its not a perfect solution, but I completly commiserate with your issue. I’ve come across reddit threads for arcane GIS or programming issues and found the comments deleted.

    Its only a matter of time before the walls go up around stack overflow and github. We should be thinking about the future and what its going to take to maintain an open and accessible web. A bit part of that is having the tools and resources available to learn. Theres a generation of learning that has the potential to be lost because some one ‘owns’ it.

    Some other considerations. Most platforms as a resources ‘work’ because they’ve reached some critical mass. Focusing on niche programming tasks or languages and building a small but robust community is more effective than trying to go very wide, but very shallow. Compare the success of the programming communities here . Most are empty. Most have no posts and no activities. But that’s because we’re conditioned to the granularity an extant critical mass supports. Instead, just like you are doing, you can post to more general communities like this one.

    There is also the strategy of focusing on more ‘diy’/ self supported projects that are based in open source. For example, QGIS, I think belongs on the fediverse. They are a phenomenal project and embody that open and free spirit.