It’s a network. You can move but will your community?

We are absolute slaves to network effects. How many things do you continue to use even though you hate them because everyone else also continues to use them even though most hate them?

Defeating the dragon of the network effect would be a great victory for human empowerment in the 21st century.

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rawgreaze 2 hours ago | parent [-]

>Defeating the dragon of the network effect would be a great victory for human empowerment in the 21st century.

Creating the network effect was the greatest loss we had in the 21st century. We used to be able to use XMPP to talk to Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger and all sorts, and they took it away, just so you'd have to use their shitty little program instead.

	▲	api 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hindsight is 20/20. We didn’t realize just how powerful it would be. Same with addictive stuff like engagement maxxing algorithms and infinite scroll. Now the new challenge is to figure out how to put those dogs down. This always happens.