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I disagree. People were saying the same thing about Facebook and Diaspora but that never actually happened.

• sneak 12y ago
  That's because diaspora sucked. The distributed social network is coming.
• jMyles 12y ago
  Wow, this is the impatience of our age. How long do you give a network distribution methodology before you declare it a failure?
• toasted 12y ago
  Facebook has a strong network effect in that everyone is on it and few regular people are interested in signing up for multiple social networks. OTOH, rideshare drivers are incentivised to have as many (useful) rideshare apps on their phones as possible to maximise their ride volume, and customers are then incentivised to order their rides from the rideshare app with the lowest commission, and eventually a race to the bottom will result.
• frewsxcv 12y ago
  I think more people are willing to switch away from Uber/Lyft than from Facebook since (from what I understand about the service) there's nothing really personal about them except for user ratings. If a new competitor opened up tomorrow that promised to be decentralized with fewer fees, I'd bet on it succeeding. Facebook has many more purposes like communication, media hosting, and event planning (with a very strong network effect). People aren't going to give up on that platform very easily.