It's funny how if everyone just went and "read the documentation" like they tend to obnoxiously tell you to do.. stackoverflow wouldn't exist. Personally I go and look for things I can answer if someone asks a question that I know will get obliterated but I can tell they just need some help. I'll try to answer it before it gets downgraded and they get banned

Pretty incredible. What happened in early 2022? It was not yet the time of GPTs, so?

It doesn't look to be a decline at all (quite healthy on the contrary) until around the time ChatGPT was released.

Where exactly am I supposed to go for programming questions if SO goes under? I don't suppose there's a Fediverse equivalent?

I mostly end up with answers from a handful of top tier devs.. I'm kind of glad they prevent junk and noise so I get the answers I need, ymmv

I can see for myself that I go way less often since I use github copilot

I mean discourse exists now