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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
by Qi_ 5y ago
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?
- riffic 5y agoone 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/ https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/
- Qi_ 5y agoThank 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.
- sm4rk0 5y agoHere's the TikTok story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/31/tiktok-why-the-enormous-success/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/31/tiktok-why...
- disambiguation 5y agoreddit founders in the early days would use fake accounts to make it seem more active