The unrelated article https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing about Syncthing is interesting too. A great quote from https://tonsky.me/blog/phil-libin (not clear whether its from Phil or Nikita):
 The easiest emotional state to generate algorithmically is tribal outrage. It’s a simple and primal emotion. We, as the tech industry, have built a model that we make money when we piss people off. And everyone’s pissed off now, we’ve made a lot of money and people are like, what went wrong? Well, everything went exactly as planned.