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Literally every social network launched in the last decade was outspokenly anti-Zuck, all of them failed or are struggling. People don't care.
by poisonborz 2y ago
Literally every social network launched in the last decade was outspokenly anti-Zuck, all of them failed or are struggling. People don't care.
- dredmorbius 2y agoMy read is less that anti-Zuck is the new Kryptonite than that that Kryptonite may be more effective than before. Even with that read, I have my doubts. Very few if any successful (that is, eventually dominant) social networks positioned themselves as anti-something. Rather, most were based on either an available and generally high-appeal founding cohort, in a largely unregulated space. Facebook was once Literally Harvard (<https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991 https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991>), Usenet similarly began at selective research universities, Slashdot with the early Internet / Free Software tech community, HN with the start-up space. Regulated spaces are far more difficult to grow: banking, finance, the military, and healthcare are cohesive and high-appeal cohorts, but each space has tight regulatory requirements which restrict both what may be discussed and who may join the networks. Bloomberg Terminal, health information systems, and internal communications amongst the banking and government sectors are strong markets of themselves but impose limits to potential expansion and entry by new competitors.