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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I had 40k points on SO though I no longer contribute. Stackexchange is basically dead because it's a for-profit with very poor direction and LLMs basically made the entire thing obsolete relative to the monetary growths it needs to be sustainable. Understandably they can't attract any attention like this as they're 🤏 from going under.

I feel a bit sad for stackexchange but they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I think stackexchange has their days numbered tho so this is realy not all that relevant. Give them a year or two tops

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It's sad because Stack Exchange came out because Experts Exchange sucked. And now they also suck.

In the day of AI, will we ever have a new alternative?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

In the day of AI, will we ever have a new alternative?

perhaps we'll see a resurgence of value added platforms that ensure it's all human generated information. not an easy problem but... if there's demand

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I doubt it tbh. I loved my time with stackoverflow and it landed me jobs and friends but I'm quite bullish when it comes IT and AI. It's not replacing devs yet but definitely replacing q&a, debugging tools, code reviews etc already/soon.

I hope we'll have some open social coding experience like SO but trends seem to point towards more private stuff like coaching, bookcamps, shitty discord servers etc. as that's the only thing that can be funded sustainably.