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I doubt the vast majority of this behavior is at such a strategic or even conscious level. People are just inherently very tribal, and prone to retroactively ra
by wrs 10y ago
I doubt the vast majority of this behavior is at such a strategic or even conscious level. People are just inherently very tribal, and prone to retroactively rationalizing their choices. That's true in every domain, including programming tools.
- nine_k 10y agoBeing tribal just aligns well with the platform incentive: the more people use it, the better is return on investment for every participant. The participants are not required to be conscious about this; the evolution will favor them anyway if they are really numerous.