#networkeffects — Public Fediverse posts

I pushed a post “Mastodon kinda hates AI” that is basically what it says on the tin https://nathanherald.com/posts/mastodon-kinda-hates-ai/

I saw this post by 1Password https://1password.social/@1password/116569353856438624 and the replies were pretty overwhelmingly negative on Masto, but not anywhere else.

Do you see the same thing? Is it good/bad/neutral that Masto overall has biases?

#mastodon #networkeffects #socialnetworks

Does the exodus to UpScrolled signify the end of TikTok?
#USA #TikTok #UpScrolled #SocialMedia #Algorithms #Censorship #Politics #Misinformation #Bluesky #Tech #MediaPower #OnlineSpeech #PlatformPolitics #TechPolicy #NetworkEffects #ShadowBanned #Facebook
https://the-14.com/does-the-exodus-to-upscrolled-signify-the-end-of-tiktok/

@urlyman @davew @pfefferle

You're right! Ideal is too strong for the case, as we'd better chose something else. Maybe viable/possible would fit better. However, #WordPress 43% adds #networkeffects to #opensourceinnovation. Otherwise, how would #Brazilianmuseums, which are among the most defunded institutions on the planet, have the muscle to be part of this conversation? The opportunity that the #pluginecosystem opens up for #sustainable #freesoftware development was key to bringing us here.

Build a Strong Business Moat: The Ultimate Guide

https://jivoice.com/building-a-business-moat/

#networkeffects #defensiblemoat #costadvantages #WarrenBuffettmoat #brandloyalty #longtermbusinesssuccess #competitiveadvantage #switchingcosts #protectingmarketshare #intangibleassets

This diagram, taken from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power. This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it shuts the door on competition. #DataAggregation #BigTech #NetworkEffects

This diagram, taken directly from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power:

Data Aggregation → Market Dominance

This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it becomes a moat. And without regulatory intervention, it shuts the door on competition.

#Google #Antitrust #PlatformPower #DataAggregation #BigTech #DigitalMonopoly #DataEconomy #NetworkEffects #Regulation

This diagram, taken directly from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power:

Data Aggregation → Market Dominance

This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it becomes a moat. And without regulatory intervention, it shuts the door on competition.

#Google #Antitrust #PlatformPower #DataAggregation #BigTech #DigitalMonopoly #DataEconomy #NetworkEffects #Regulation

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

Are you ready to make the strategic pivot towards network effects management for a resilient supply chain?

Delve deeper:https://supplychain360.io/strategic-shift-embracing-network-effects-supply-chain-management-wordpress-article/

#SupplyChain #NetworkEffects #SCONs

While Friend.tech booms, decentralized social has a retention problem — Execs - Decentralized social network Friend.tech may be booming right now... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/friend-tech-decentralized-social-media-onboarding-problem #decentalizedsocialmedia #networkeffects #userinterface #desoprotocol #suhailkakar #friendtech #onboard #edmoss

Politics is downstream from culture and the battlefield for culture wars is in disinformation and provokatsiya across digital networks.

via John Robb: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrobb/p/america-needs-enemies?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#politics #culture #informationgain #informationwar #culturewar #provokatsiya #networkeffects #networkstate

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

#BigTech #Capitalism #NetworKEffects #SwitchingCosts #Economics: "While it’s possible in theory for competition to work well even when network effects and switching costs exist, it’s probably best to assume that they are gumming up the works. Paul Klemperer, one of the pioneers of switching-cost models, has argued that antitrust authorities should try to ensure compatibility between rival platforms, reducing switching costs and pushing against the ability of any one company to monopolise a network.

That means maximising interoperability: the ability to send posts to your Facebook friends, and read their posts, even if you’ve decided to leave Facebook and use a different social network; the ability to take your eBooks and audiobooks out of Amazon’s ecosystem (you paid for them, after all); the ability to put any kind of ink in your printer, any kind of razor blade on your handle and any kind of bread in your toaster.

Interoperability cannot be guaranteed by law. There are too many hard cases, too many grey areas, too many legitimate technical obstacles. But regulators can operate with a presumption in favour of interoperability, as they do for switching phone providers or making transfers between banks."

https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc

"… #antitrust authorities should try to ensure #compatibility between rival platforms, reducing #SwitchingCosts and pushing against the ability of any one company to monopolise a network. …regulators can operate with a presumption in favour of #interoperability, as they do for switching phone providers or making transfers between banks."
https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc?sharetype=blocked
#enshittification #NetworkEffects

Speech by Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements, BIS conference “Big techs in finance – implications for public policy” Basel, Switzerland, February 8, 2023

— Available here: https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp230208.pdf

#bigtech #finance #networkeffects #regulation #activitybasedregulation #entitybasedregulation #banking #financialservices #creditscoring #financialinclusion #privacy #financialstability #operationalrisk #resilience #corporategovernance #BIS

via Andreas Ortmann:
Interesting new working paper. AER and JEEA bad, EE good.
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/editorial-favoritism-in-the-field-of-laboratory-experimental-econ
#ExperimentalEcon #favoritism #NetworkEffects

Social Quitting

https://craphound.com/news/2023/01/22/social-quitting/

#platformcapitalism #enshittification #networkeffects #switchingcosts #locusmagazine #post-facebook #corydoctorow #post-twitter #socialmedia #spokenword #surpluses #webtheory #Articles #podcasts #Podcast #exodus #audio #locus #News

@boud All but certainly a markup failure, as what's printed is "n2" rather than the more conventional "2n" when referencing multiplication.

Then there's the issue that Metcalfe's law overstates the value of network size. Odlyzko & Tilly suggest n * log(n) as a better approximation.

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf

My own view is that value 1) increases at a decreasing rate as nodes grow (Odlyzko-Tilly) and 2) that there's a constant cost function per node, 'k':

V = n * (log(n) - k*n

This also gives us an upper bound on value-increasing network scale: where k >= log(n), the network can no longer grow effectively.

Corollaries:

• By reducing k, viable network size can be increased. This is effectively the same as improving network hygiene such that cost factors are reduced.
• Increasing k will reduce the total viable size of a network.
• A periodically variable k (whether regular or irregular) will result in a network with a variable maximum viable size.

But the key is If you want to make large networks less viable, increase their constant cost function.

Ping @pluralistic

@rysiek @eff

#MetcalfesLaw #NetworkValue #NetworkEffects #AndrewOdlyzko #OdlyzkoTilly #HygieneFactors #NetworkCostFunction #Scale