I tried out a couple of other Reddit replacements a few years ago before Lemmy took off, and I really enjoyed the few that had separate votes for “funny” and “insightful/contributes to discussion/whatev”.

Yeah it made voting a bit clunkier, but it did a good job of differentiating between two very different ways of positively contributing to a discussion.

Time to spend a billion dollars lobbying to prevent their sale in the US instead of investing that money in actual innovation that would make their products competitive.

Edison didn’t do any damage to Tesla’s name (he was more than capable of doing that himself), and by all contemporary accounts the two men seem to have supported each other the brief time they were together and parted ways amicably. (Also, Edison personally had nothing to do with electrocuting Topsy the elephant - see 4:09:00.)