I wish it didn’t take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.
MySpace got silly, enter FB.
Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not.
Reddit nukes their own service,
Etc.
Not that bad projects shouldn’t die off, but it’s always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive “let’s try this new thing because it might be better”.
I think Reddit is an outlier in the sense that until now it has been a good service with fairly minor flaws.
FB is totally garbage and had been that for many years now and yet people are not seeking alternatives, maybe because that kind of social media is not that interesting anymore to the types that would care.
That may be, but they have 100’s of millions of users, and most of them will never entertain an alternative until [insert world-breaking issue/event here].
Maybe it’s OK though. The big majority usually follows what is default, and then you have a minority doing something different. Linux users are like 1% and it’s still enough for the community to thrive and enjoy themselves a lot. It’s probably the same here, that once we reach enough users to keep things interesting, we don’t actually need more users. :)
I wish it didn’t take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.
MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.
Not that bad projects shouldn’t die off, but it’s always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive “let’s try this new thing because it might be better”.
I think Reddit is an outlier in the sense that until now it has been a good service with fairly minor flaws.
FB is totally garbage and had been that for many years now and yet people are not seeking alternatives, maybe because that kind of social media is not that interesting anymore to the types that would care.
@sina @dukethorion FB is for lazy boomers who are too scared of anything truly technological
That may be, but they have 100’s of millions of users, and most of them will never entertain an alternative until [insert world-breaking issue/event here].
Maybe it’s OK though. The big majority usually follows what is default, and then you have a minority doing something different. Linux users are like 1% and it’s still enough for the community to thrive and enjoy themselves a lot. It’s probably the same here, that once we reach enough users to keep things interesting, we don’t actually need more users. :)
@smartwater0897 @dukethorion Exactly. FB corrals a big chunk of the low-effort people into one place who would otherwise ruin great communities.