software where if enough users set a preference a certain way it becomes the new default

@jplebreton And when the feature is newly introduced, does it randomly set the value for each user, to mitigate the opt-in/opt-out disparity?

@jplebreton are you subtweeting Gnome by chance

@jplebreton @mcc hit like, but the more i think about it the more i hate it. don't want those damn lately-switchers from windows putting a start menu on my ubuntu desktop!

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This is a low key argument for telemetry.

@jplebreton If very few users press a button it vanishes!

@mhoye yeah that's kind of the more serious "thing you can actually do" version

@jplebreton (also, assuming this is about the firefox ai kill switch, what if it turns out most users quietly like it? )

@jplebreton @odoruhako "what the hell happened with my z, j, and q's?!"

@jplebreton It's the democratic preference. Either you have 100 preferences, or you toggle "mob rule", and you get whatever the majority of the mob has.

Want to change a preference in mob rule? Campaign for your friends and friends' friends to change their preferences.

Whew, this seems like a really bad system. Glad it's just a thought experiment.

@jplebreton You know I would seriously consider doing this if it didn't mean I'd have to do telemetry.

@jplebreton and if enough people do keyboard shortcut -> undo -> menu option, that becomes the keyboard shortcut for that menu option.

@shanecelis @jplebreton Apportion votes by free disk space.