Yes. Stack Overflow isn't magic. I think they succeeded because they focused heavily on SEO, which brought both ask-ers and answer-ers to the site.
Personally, the "accepted answer" is the killer feature. Dunno if NodeBB, Kbin, or others already support this.
There's potential in SO's gamification aspects, too. I'd love to let third-party sites to award badges or "endorsements" and display them on my profile page. This could work in all kinds of trust/credibility situations.
The randomized experiment you did is so cool! I love experiments like this -- like the Allais Paradox -- that reveal biases and irrationalities.
But in this case, as a game theorist, I aver that the switchers are correct. This is a classic application of Schelling points. If we all have the altruistic utility function "minimize death" then there are two Nash equilibria: (1) Everyone take the pill, and (2) no one take the pill. If the question is framed such that everyone taking the pill (like when it's just pressing one of two buttons) is focal, that's the equilibrium you expect and the one you rationally adopt yourself. When it's framed the other way, you expect the other equilibrium and rationally don't take the pill.
PS: I just realized that this is also the exact problem you called out in encouraging us to get set up on kbin for comments. The two equilibria are "no one else is going to set up an account so I won't bother to either" and "that's the new Schelling point for Dynomight comments so of course I want to be there too!"
PPS: Taking you up on your self-promotion encouragement, I predict that Dynomight readers will like the Beeminder blog, maybe especially the posts tagged "rationality". (Also I'm excited to see some of you at Less Online!)
So have been testing over the past few weeks and made accounts on: a) Hubzilla b) Friendica c) Mastodon d) Kbin e) Lemmy f) Iceshrimp g) Bonfire h) Peertube i) Funkwhale j) Pixelfed
I’m only interested in moving my friends away from Facebook, and have the same fun we used to have as a group, for now nothing seem to match FB functionality unfortunately…
Have your own profile
Public and Private Groups
1 to 1 chats
And of course no one would consider joining a platform without a ( feature complete ) mobile app, Firefish is amazing but it has no mobile clients that look as a good as the website, and people say Friendica is the ethical Facebook, but it’s ugly…😅 i don’t know what to recommend ?
Fighting me and other survey results (dynomight.net)
Do extroverts have more martial confidence?
*Best* video for explaining the Fediverse to a total noob?
Suggestions?