What if Stack Overflow, except federated?

[rimu@piefed.social]

PieFed v1.4 will have Stack Overflow-like functionality: the person who posted a question will be able to choose which of the replies are the answer, by clicking the green tick icon in the bottom left. Chosen answer(s) then have a highlight and a green tick at the top of them.

This is off by default - communities have a checkbox on them that needs to be toggled to turn it on. So only some communities will have it.

To Lemmy instances, these questions and answers will look just like normal posts and comments, without the highlight and tick. So people using Lemmy will be able to contribute.

Designating which comment is an answer involves federating a new Activity:

{  
         "id": "https://piefed.social/activities/answer/hgb4iO4b8UAFRTn", 
         "type": "ChooseAnswer",  
         "actor": "https://piefed.socialz/u/rimu", 
         "object": "https://piefed.ngrok.app/comment/224",  
         "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1"],  
         "audience": "https://crust.piefed.social/c/linux_questions",  
         "to": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"],  
         "cc": ["https://crust.piefed.social/c/linux_questions"]  
}  

[julian@activitypub.space]

NodeBB has a question and answer plugin that does something similar. We can adapt this functionality and make it work between Piefed and NodeBB as well.

One thing I'd like to see is a property on OP (or maybe the context!! 😁) designating the selected answer. Otherwise if the activity is missed then it won't ever be seen again.

[rimu@piefed.social]

That would be cool!

There is an answer on the comment Note:

[julian@activitypub.space]

Mm answer looks to be bool, any chance it can be an ID?

[cm0002@lemmy.cafe]

Duplicate question, this was answered here [15 years ago, outdated and completely different stack] closing

But seriously neat though lol

[julian@activitypub.space]

triggered

[cannedtuna@lemmy.world]

Idk I’d say default theme, but customized. I like the centered Mac style taskbar, with auto hide, and the full page app drawer. Plus a top bar with info like time and system tray.

[openstars@piefed.social]

This is such a neat idea! 💡

[die4ever@retrolemmy.com]

OP selected the wrong answer, obviously it's https://store.kde.org/p/2330858

Cool feature though!

[antibullyranger@ani.social]

Vernacularly, I rather have OPsChoice than ChooseAnswer because OPs in the threadiverse are often wrong in their perspectives. If it creates a flag for the Activity indicating it's what OP choose, it won't lead to Sybil attacks we are already facing.

[flamingos@feddit.uk]

Yeah, it should be an ID on the post imo, not a bool on the comment. Other users (bar mods) shouldn't be able to edit other people's data.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Ideologically, you're right.

But since announcing that feature I also started, finished & announced another major one and am now eying up the next one.

Onwards!

[flamingos@feddit.uk]

There's also the issue that the comment could be on a service that doesn't support this (which is all of them bar Piefed), so this won't be set. At least if this was on the post, it's within your remit and can therefore control for it.

[jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works]

hopefully search engines will actually index it

[greybeard@feddit.online]

/me searches a problem, finally finding someone asking the exact question I have.
Page: Can't you idiots search for anything, 2 seconds searching would have found the answer.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.zip]

Too wide a question. Please specify a scope.

[nymnympseudonym@piefed.social]

Our Fedi future... is PieFed

[bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de]

I'd like to see the answer property on the thread containing the ID of the marked answer. Any chance that this would be possible?

[julian@activitypub.space]

bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de having answer be an ID also works with existing implementations because it's still truthy...

Although I think "truthy" is a purely js concept lol