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It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
by morkalork 2y ago
It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoCall it a tipping point, call it a collective action problem finally being resolved, snowballing, viral liftoff, or belittle it and call it a "herd stampede" if you really want. But those are all "organic" phenomena. The grandparent comment that called it "inorganic" seems to be mistaken.
- danielbln 2y agoThere is this cynical (and maybe often warranted) take that any sudden uptake or virality is astro-turfing or I inorganic or shilling. Not the case here though, I see it myself how basically all my old Twitter communities have migrated and things are really vibrant. Block lists, mute words and starter packs mean I we exactly what I want to see, which adds to the appeal.
- rsynnott 2y agoIt’s been a while since someone has wilfully destroyed a thing that has an obvious replacement. Last one was probably Digg.
- morkalork 2y agoI was a highschool senior when Facebook came out, back when you needed an email with a university's domain name to sign up. That one was driven by pure FOMO. Everyone's older friends were on it and going to cool frat parties and you were just stuck on the outside looking in. LiveJournal and Myspace had nothing on that.