>But you essentially can't overcome the network effects. There's no way to gradually build a social network when everyone is already on a different one. How di

>But you essentially can't overcome the network effects. There's no way to gradually build a social network when everyone is already on a different one. How did Facebook overtake Myspace then? I'm not really convinced that the thing holding back Mastodon and other efforts like it is merely incumbency inertia. I think even if you started from zero again, Twitter would take off and Mastodon wouldn't. The Mastodon experience does not strike me as better than the Twitter experience for most users. Most people don't really care if if something is open-source or federated/decentralized. Those are not features that draw users.