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I’m not really sure that being open source here means much of anything, but an SO alternative definitely sounds good. Thanks for the tip.
At a basic level it just means anyone can run their own instance if they want. Most importantly here, it means if the company/organization running the flagship instance goes rotten it is much easier to migrate out of it.
But without federation questions and answers reside only on one server