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Yes, truth is, networks have no replacement. At the end of the day, social sites live and die by the circles of people that are there. One way out of this woul
by npteljes 2y ago
Yes, truth is, networks have no replacement. At the end of the day, social sites live and die by the circles of people that are there.
One way out of this would be if content creators would en masse upload to multiple sites. Even with preferential treatment for YouTube, this would enable consumers to follow their favorite creators outside of YouTube, and get the same content. Of course, this onus is now on the creators, and I imagine they have enough to manage as it is. So what they would need is a good incentive. But that is people, and as long as they have enough people on YouTube, there is no incentive to diversify. So we're back at the network effect.
- fundatus 2y agoAgree! But it's not impossible. I signed up for Bluesky in late 2023 and it was... like a tumbleweed tumbling across my screen. But now? It really feels like they've crossed some kind of threshold and it very much feels like Twitter back in the day™. I think they just crossed 30m users, maybe that is the magic number?
- npteljes 2y agoI'm happy for Bluesky's success. To me, it feels like that platforms began to figure out how to balance the hostile features vs the user retention. Major platforms were abusive left and right in the last couple of years, and people predicted their demise, as they always do, but nothing major happened, that is comparable to the MySpace or Digg or Slashdot demise back in the day. This is why I'm not holding my breath wrt/ YouTube as well. For better or worse, they do a damned good job with keeping the platform alive. I'm a premium subscriber even.