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by costanzaDynasty 1093 days ago
Everyone on and around social media wants new and better forms of social media.

I think the average person thinks social media is the drizzling shits but if they have to use it, they'll just stick to the large platforms.
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thephyber 1093 days ago
I think some users certainly act as you describe, but I suspect the majority of users will follow the early adopters after they identify and popularize a better mousetrap.

The history of social media platforms suggests to me that users are fickle and have no strong connection to any platform. Friendster, MySpace, Facebook each had their moment and then most users either left the platform or spend more time on other platforms.

We are in an interesting phase where lots of different new platforms are experimenting with differentiation strategies. There is a whole ecosystem of “political right” social media (Truth Social, Gab, Parlor, Rumbl, etc). The federated social media platforms are selling the “you won’t lose access to everything due to moderation/banning” niche. I’m sure there are Web3 (the blockchain one) social media platforms, but I can’t be bothered to look into their details.

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autokad 1093 days ago
I always felt like the big switch from myspace to facebook came because facebook had a lot of games and apps that you could play and use on the platform. ironically, because facebook took such a big cut, all those apps have gone away.

for facebook to be displaced, an app has to offer something else facebook isn't offering, and most new apps offer less - going for the simpler approach. I think that's a loosing strategy myself. I remember how long I used msn messenger just because it had the email tied into it at the time. You need to offer more, not less.

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tomsmeding 1093 days ago
That's easy. Everyone on about computers as a thing wants newer and better computers. The average person thinks computers are crappy and stick to the large platforms if they have to use them.

s/computers/furniture/, or kitchen ware (cooking), or any other daily thing that some people have significantly above-average interest in.

This also goes for software: word processors, machine learning frameworks, browsers.

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