My take is that the lack of interaction and socializing is not actually dependant on being in the same physical location day-in-and-day-out. There are a lot of

My take is that the lack of interaction and socializing is not actually dependant on being in the same physical location day-in-and-day-out. There are a lot of ways that people socialize online. They just aren't built into the remote work culture. There are many startups looking to address this with more social virtual work environments. But really it's a matter of what people do rather than not having tools. For example if there was an always-on video-chat on its own monitor, people could just unmute that. Or something similar but with different locations such as water-cooler A and water-cooler B. For me, having been remote for about ten years or more depending on how you count it, they have mostly been very small startups. And the other people involved actually generally have had other jobs to do. So they just didn't have much time available during the week for socializing. But part of it I feel is a lack of interest in socializing. Which you can say that forcing people to do it by being in the same space is an advantage but maybe another idea is to adopt traditions/culture and software that make it more fun or easier to socialize online. I just wish people would log into the Discord more. But I think the fact they don't do that every day means they are a bit checked out of the project realistically.