On June 26th 2024 I launched a website called One Million Checkboxes (OMCB). It had one million global checkboxes on it - checking a box checked it for everyone on the site, immediately. The site, 30 minutes after launch I built the site in 2 days. I thought I’d get a few hundred users, max. That is not what happened. Instead, within hours of launching, tens of thousands of users checked millions of boxes. They piled in from Hacker News, /r/InternetIsBeautiful, Mastodon and Twitter. A few days l...