#networkeffect — Public Fediverse posts

I was at an event last night and some people spoke about how without Fb they wouldn't have been able to reconnect with their school friends.
The #Networkeffect of the #socialgraph is so important to growth.

I am wondering how the #Fediverse could incorporate that in order to get more users.

#MastoAdmin #marketing #mastodon

@shlee @KathyReid follow @HolosDiscover @stefan @AdminTeam @tchambers

Seeing history repeat itself, wanted to encourage everyone on the #fediverse to take a few minutes to do something that might be VERY useful in a couple weeks.

A few years ago, and there was a massive influx onto #Mastodon. Those of us who had already been here did what we could to help new people get started, expanding our presence and creating invite links. It was also very helpful that a lot of people made early on, and linked them to friends, even though they didn't have anyone already here, which helped overcome the #NetworkEffect that deters people from joining.

#Discord is now creating a new exodus: they are forcing a large chunk of the user base to #dox themselves in order to maintain full access.

Other #OpenSource services, like #Matrix and #Fluxer seam positioned to be the new alternative people run to.

There's still time to be an early adopter and get their Network populated. Go make accounts, send them to your friends, be ready for one to take off.

Let's do this. ✊

https://fluxer.app/

Seeing history repeat itself, wanted to encourage everyone on the #fediverse to take a few minutes to do something that might be VERY useful in a couple weeks.

A few years ago, and there was a massive influx onto #Mastodon. Those of us who had already been here did what we could to help new people get started, expanding our presence and creating invite links. It was also very helpful that a lot of people made early on, and linked them to friends, even though they didn't have anyone already here, which helped overcome the #NetworkEffect that deters people from joining.

#Discord is now creating a new exodus: they are forcing a large chunk of the user base to #dox themselves in order to maintain full access.

Other #OpenSource services, like #Matrix and #Fluxer seam positioned to be the new alternative people run to.

There's still time to be an early adopter and get their Network populated. Go make accounts, send them to your friends, be ready for one to take off.

Let's do this. ✊

https://fluxer.app/

Seeing history repeat itself, wanted to encourage everyone on the #fediverse to take a few minutes to do something that might be VERY useful in a couple weeks.

A few years ago, and there was a massive influx onto #Mastodon. Those of us who had already been here did what we could to help new people get started, expanding our presence and creating invite links. It was also very helpful that a lot of people made early on, and linked them to friends, even though they didn't have anyone already here, which helped overcome the #NetworkEffect that deters people from joining.

#Discord is now creating a new exodus: they are forcing a large chunk of the user base to #dox themselves in order to maintain full access.

Other #OpenSource services, like #Matrix and #Fluxer seam positioned to be the new alternative people run to.

There's still time to be an early adopter and get their Network populated. Go make accounts, send them to your friends, be ready for one to take off.

Let's do this. ✊

https://fluxer.app/

Seeing history repeat itself, wanted to encourage everyone on the #fediverse to take a few minutes to do something that might be VERY useful in a couple weeks.

A few years ago, and there was a massive influx onto #Mastodon. Those of us who had already been here did what we could to help new people get started, expanding our presence and creating invite links. It was also very helpful that a lot of people made early on, and linked them to friends, even though they didn't have anyone already here, which helped overcome the #NetworkEffect that deters people from joining.

#Discord is now creating a new exodus: they are forcing a large chunk of the user base to #dox themselves in order to maintain full access.

Other #OpenSource services, like #Matrix and #Fluxer seam positioned to be the new alternative people run to.

There's still time to be an early adopter and get their Network populated. Go make accounts, send them to your friends, be ready for one to take off.

Let's do this. ✊

https://fluxer.app/

Seeing history repeat itself, wanted to encourage everyone on the #fediverse to take a few minutes to do something that might be VERY useful in a couple weeks.

A few years ago, and there was a massive influx onto #Mastodon. Those of us who had already been here did what we could to help new people get started, expanding our presence and creating invite links. It was also very helpful that a lot of people made early on, and linked them to friends, even though they didn't have anyone already here, which helped overcome the #NetworkEffect that deters people from joining.

#Discord is now creating a new exodus: they are forcing a large chunk of the user base to #dox themselves in order to maintain full access.

Other #OpenSource services, like #Matrix and #Fluxer seam positioned to be the new alternative people run to.

There's still time to be an early adopter and get their Network populated. Go make accounts, send them to your friends, be ready for one to take off.

Let's do this. ✊

https://fluxer.app/

The 10 Nebula Award Winning Sci-Fi Novels You Must Read

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https://www.themarysue.com/the-10-nebula-award-winning-sci-fi-novels-you-must-read/

#Books #2312 #AncillaryJustice #Annihilation #networkeffect
@indieauthors

Watching with interest:

A New Social
https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/

"We're A New Social, a new #nonprofit organization focused on building cross-protocol tools and services for the #OpenSocial web…We need to have…The Last #NetworkEffect, where users are on a combined network using platforms embracing #OpenProtocols. This enables people to choose platforms based on their needs rather than how many users are active on them."

#ActivityPub #ATprotocol #Bluesky #BridgyFed #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenProtocols #SocialMedia
@anewsocial

@pganssle

This doesn't explain why that #ProprietaryPlatform (#Discord, #Slack, MS Teams, etc.) were initially chosen for that specific group of people. The person who made that decision did it for other reasons.

But it does explain what you asked: Why is this so popular, i.e. why are *so many* people continuing to use it?

#NetworkEffect and #SwitchingCosts. Nothing much to do with the properties of that particular platform.

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms avoids those problems.

@pganssle
> How is this platform [#Discord] so popular?

I lean on the old reliable explanations:

Network effect, brings people in.

Switching costs, prevent them from leaving.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/21/involuntary-die-hards/

#NetworkEffect #SwitchingCosts #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

THIS! https://www.sacog.org/planning/transportation/active-transportation/sacramento-regional-trail-network
A 1,000 mile (1600 km) bike network connecting #Sacramento #YoloCounty #ElDorado #Sutter #Placer and #Yuba counties. This would be a huge boon to cycling. #Bicycle #NetworkEffect #SacramentoValley

@volkris @briankrebs @jerry Before I started exploring the #Fediverse last year, I've never used #SocialMedia at all: #noFacebook, #noInstgram, #noTicToc, #noTwitter, #noYouTube, etc.

Commercials driven platforms generally never appeal useful to me in terms of community building and communication. For this reason I successfully refrain from using #noDiscord, #noSkype, #noTelegram, #noWhatsApp, etc.

In my opinion people sacrifice a lot of their #privacy and force others into the same dilemma because of the #NetworkEffect to gain using a tool for free more conveniently than spending some time to #FLOSS alternatives.

@eric
Keep in mind whether you're enabling their #NetworkEffect. Ie. Why would someone want to K'verse if they can coast along on the #dotcon statusQuo, and K'Verse will yield?

Btw #criticalMass is 3.5% not 1-in-5. Its perfectly achieveable, if we organise.

Spam is always going to be there. Its part of learning. Also one persons spam is another persons understanding, another's source of 'lols', but always a manifestation of a truth.

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