People go wherever the people already are on social media.
It’s why it’s so difficult to get your people to switch from FB Messenger to WIRE or Signal even though they’re not recording every keystroke like FB Messenger is.
Network effect is real but not insurmountable, that’s why the migration from twitter is happening in the first place. The question is why did the first movers decide on Bluesky instead of Mastodon? And the answer is probably just because there is a more 1-to-1 mapping to twitter with less focus on confusing federation and following procedures. Now that it’s had such an influx, yeah, the network effect is going to strengthen its lead.
People go wherever the people already are on social media.
It’s why it’s so difficult to get your people to switch from FB Messenger to WIRE or Signal even though they’re not recording every keystroke like FB Messenger is.
Network effect is real but not insurmountable, that’s why the migration from twitter is happening in the first place. The question is why did the first movers decide on Bluesky instead of Mastodon? And the answer is probably just because there is a more 1-to-1 mapping to twitter with less focus on confusing federation and following procedures. Now that it’s had such an influx, yeah, the network effect is going to strengthen its lead.