Tldr: capitalist efficiency
There is a neat piece about the OS side; worth reading.
SincerityIsCool
joined 1 month ago
The prison industrial complex: hold my beer
There's definitely problems with that option. But in the situation you described I'd just say fuck you and close the page rather than support that. People immediately leaving is probably worse than bad questions don't get answers.
An abstain, maybe? Would also be useful for questions that you won't know enough to answer. Then if you keep getting hung juries you know you're asking bad questions.
Humans do indeed contain multitudes, but I think this gives too much credit to the influence of corporate (and their political interference) interests. Enshittification is an active choice made in board rooms. Disinformation is an agenda. They're not inevitable grassroots outgrowths.
Lemmy, curated to avoid AI, curtail corporate news, and where the admins and community are fighting bots and trolls is an example of the reclamation attempt.
And you know what? It's kinda nice here.