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> People have an infinite amount of electronic communication tools and services from which to choose. Due to network effects of communication tools, this is no
by feanaro 4y ago
> People have an infinite amount of electronic communication tools and services from which to choose.
Due to network effects of communication tools, this is not really true.
- hellojesus 4y agoNetwork effects can be overcome locally, by talking with your contacts and getting them to move to a new app/communication mechanism. It takes time, but compelling arguments will win in the end.
- areeh 4y agoI think one of the big missing pieces in your parent comment about choice and negative externalities has to do with this network effect and I do not think the argument that it can be overcome locally is a very compelling counter.
- hellojesus 4y agoIt certainly is a difficult thing to do, but we see it happen time and time again. TikTok is now the biggest app, and it was nowhere a few years ago. Same with things like Insta, What's app, Signal, etc. It is definitely a hard thing to overcome but not impossible. Especially as people become more privacy focused. I, for example, have had zero luck moving my family to Signal, and I'm the only non iPhone in the family network with my grapheneos phone and receive constant complaints about how I mess up group threads.