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The costs of leaving a big social network to start your own are huge -- you can't interact with anybody.

• mjevans 6y ago
  I liked the old model of a beach of sands, maybe a couple stones, but still a rich ecosystem. Clinging to sands is lonely, and I refuse the big sites.
• mayniac 6y ago
  You can set up a phpBB instance on a shared hosting provider for <$10/month. Interact with anyone who wants to interact with you. Don't even really need any technical knowlege, just a credit card. People do it all the time, but they keep themselves to themselves and you don't find out about it.
  • throwawaysea 6y ago
    Social networks are immune to competition because of network effects. Once their network is established as the first mover, a subsequent newcomer will always have a worse product because of the smaller networks be therefore can’t challenge the incumbent. Where we have seen successful upstarts in social media is when they have a different product. So Tik Tok can enter this space. But a Twitter clone or Facebook clone will have a hard time. The technology isn’t the blocker. It’s that the nature of the social media product works differently, and the lack of competition is inherent to such a product.
    • amanaplanacanal 6y ago
      That’s why MySpace is still so huge.