yeah I think the enshittification of the old mass-platformers is a kind of collapse of the tower of babel/fall of Rome moment: no one will ever have those first mover advantages, and hence that size, and hence those network effects ever again.
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The socials, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been. Unity succeeds division and division follows unity. One is bound to be replaced by the other after a long span of time.
sep 1, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
TikTok? YouTube? Idgi
sep 1, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm very hopeful that will mean we are free from the current oligopoly of fringe lunatics.
sep 1, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
This was the Facebook discourse a decade ago.
sep 1, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
also imo this is very good, twitter was ass and had a huge nazi problem even back in the old jack days, and in my view stifled left wing discourses at a critical moment in history
sep 1, 2025, 7:56 pm • 12 0 • view
TikTok did grow despite not having first mover advantage but it also exploded 7 years ago and was pioneering a new medium of short form video
sep 1, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s probably fine, massive social networks have done more harm than good.
sep 1, 2025, 7:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Maybe yes, maybe no? FB managed to achieve dominance without being a first mover (there was MySpace, LiveJournal etc. before them). We'll have to wait and see what happens. Although I don't expect Bsky to emerge dominant over X, because of identity politics creating barriers to joining.
sep 1, 2025, 8:58 pm • 4 0 • view