<p>There has been recent <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/">turmoil</a> on StackExchange (relating to various issues) and there are <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336246/">thoughts</a> rising that it might be better for the community to be more independent from the commercial side of StackExchange.</p>

<p>We may repeat that meta-discussion over here. We should/can ask ourselves what <em>specific</em> measures we can take in the statistics corner? </p>

<ul>
<li>What can we do to become more independent from the community/<a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper#comment1104558_334136">people</a>'s source <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion/">code</a> of the old platform and become an open-source source model that is more <em>decentralized</em> and more <em>controlled by the community</em>, the community that is also creating the content?</li>
<li>Are there steps we can take that are specific for CrossValidated?</li>
</ul>

<h3>Any suggestions?</h3>

<p>For example, there is a wide spectrum of possibilities:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>An extreme case would be to create a spin-off as has been done before (see <a href="https://www.physicsoverflow.org/faq" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PhysicsOverflow</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>As a softer version of a spin-off we could possibly disentangle our contributions from Cross Validated by posting the majority of our contributions elsewhere. This will create more diversity in the ownership of platforms by which the content is spread to the public/internauts. </p>

<p>Posting shorter answers here and placing more in-depth content elsewhere may work because it is the length of posts that relates to the quality of the content, at least the <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/1132433/score-of-posts-as-function-of-length-of-body-text#graph" rel="nofollow noreferrer">score of the posts does relate to the length of the post</a></p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/w0jbp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/w0jbp.png" alt="post length"></a></p></li>
<li><p>Ideally we should make a smaller step than fully separating (as <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/336303/389297">proposed on meta by Scortchi</a>). That is because disconnecting from StackExchange removes many advantages (like connections with other SE sites).</p></li>
</ul>

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<p>The goal of this post is that, based on the <em>suggestions</em>, we might start to <em>develop a consensus solution</em> that provides options for breaking the corporate monopoly, and <em>unites</em> the community, and <em>prevent chaos</em> and <em>prevent separation</em>, prevent splits in the community and prevent that we will start to move in different ways.</p>
