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Social media is better when the people you want to interact with are there, so when everyone else is moving is an unusually good time to move.
by jefftk 4y ago
Social media is better when the people you want to interact with are there, so when everyone else is moving is an unusually good time to move.
- Levitz 4y agoHopefully we at least learn that "build your own social network" was never a reasonable point.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoIndeed. The network effect. I got onto Mastodon in May just to check it out. It was pretty sleepy in that there weren't a lot of people I was following on twitter on mastodon. In the last couple of weeks that's begun to change rapidly. I think we're nearing a tipping point.
- cm2187 4y agoIf everyone is moving. The problem with the network effects is that it is very hard to compete. It is kind of the experience with Parler. If 5% of users are extremists and leave twitter for [new platform] and another 5% of users are moderate and do the same, [new platform] ends up with 50% extremist, 50% moderate, and the moderate users won't stick around for very long. I am not sure that a social network full of left-wing activits will be very palatable to the average moderate user.