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The large platforms are where the large audiences are. Ordinary people (i.e. non-tech-nerds) are not going to abandon the large platforms for smaller ones, or
by twblalock 6y ago
The large platforms are where the large audiences are.
Ordinary people (i.e. non-tech-nerds) are not going to abandon the large platforms for smaller ones, or federated ones. The huge amount of easily discoverable content large platforms are the reason the audience remains.
So yes, what the large information outlets does matter more than what the small ones do.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoIf I had said to you in 1993 that "ordinary people are not going to abandon the large platforms for these new internet discussion forums", what would you have said then? Yes, there's a network effect. No, it's not everlasting, or all-encompassing. Basing current policy on claims about how people will behave in the future seems like a bad idea to me.