as the article points to by namedropping Shirky, this is the natural result of offering choice among many diverse options, which tends to create power law distr

as the article points to by namedropping Shirky, this is the natural result of offering choice among many diverse options, which tends to create power law distributions, the idea that the free-wheeling nature of platforms produces equal outcomes was always, based on the nature of social networks, impossible. The Verge had a good and sobering article about what that means in practice: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers...