[Qi_]

It seems like all new social networks have a vicious fact to overcome: nobody's on it, so nobody uses it, so nobody's on it.

How do social networks reach that "critical mass" of users?

[sm4rk0]

Here's the TikTok story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/31/tiktok-why...

[riffic]

one way would be to be interoperable with an existing ecosystem from the start.

Michelle Lim makes a great case for this here:

https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/

[Qi_]

Thank you for sharing the link. I like the idea of standardization among smaller social media platforms. Basically, the success of a platform built on ActivityPub becomes more tied to the success of ALL platforms built on ActivityPub.

[disambiguation]

reddit founders in the early days would use fake accounts to make it seem more active