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by wallacoloo 1475 days ago
i don’t know. the past decade has been everyone shouting about network effects, yet i can’t count on either hand the number of matching-related apps i’ve both left and joined over that duration. on the other hand, i’m still using basically the same http networking protocol during that same duration. network effects are real (hence http still dominating), but the higher you crawl up the stack the “softer” the effect.
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It’s harder to change things down the stack. I guess the more things are built on top of fb (like sign in w fb) the harder it’ll be to change it?