Can't think of any particular reason we need to replace the US population. It seems like we've done enough.

Upvoting a post releases the Good Chemicals in the brain. You do this when you would like the person who made this contribution to do more of that.

Downvoting, in turn, produces the Bad CHemicals. The downvote button was famously invented to replace the previous disincentivizing mehchanism, Hammers.

Reddit likes to make promises in a crisis that they never follow through on. They're gonna fix the apps this time, last time it was mod tools.

On the one hand, embrace-extend-extinguish is a classic playbook for big evil companies.

1. Facebook runs a version of mastodon or lemmy or whatever that is actually good
2. People get on board because it's usable and ostensibly open
3. Facebook invents features that, sadly, are not possible with ActivityPub (actual private messages come to mind)

On the other hand, it remains to be seen if anyone takes Meta up on a new offering. I'd have complete faith in the future of the open Internet if it was Google trying this.

The precise outline of the dysfunction varies a little bit, even within a particular BigCo. Usually it boils down to managers who don't know how people work, and middle-to-upper management living in a reality of their own invention.

Have you considered the possibility that everyone on the internet is fucking crazy

I don't think we have tha kind of relationship yet

i barely even know you people

I'm a software engineer. One monitor for vim, one monitor for the terminal, one monitor for the browser. Somewhere in there is chat, which is how I do most of my work communication. I have to keep a lot of information in front of me while I work so I benefit from more monitor space.

The distraction tends to come from my phone, or more generally when my company does something infuriating and I can't think straight for a while.

Wait, there's no karma here? Bye, it's been fun.