There are some topics where this sorting mechanism is the only one that will give you good comments, like asking for unpopular or controversial opinions. 1000 people will get upvoted because they post things that aren’t unpopular at all, and the few comments that are actually worth discussing get just as many down as up votes.

Every temperature scale in our usual range is pretty arbitrary at the end of the day, but you have to admit that the fixpoints of Fahrenheit are particularly useless in everyday life.

I started saying “Gesundung” as a joke 10 years ago, and now I can’t stop. It’s not a real word, but if it were it would mean “Getting healthy”. Seemed more appropriate to me at the time, and still kinda does.

Blocking spam by sending server is basically defederation.