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Why are people so interested in mass adoption of things like fediverse? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by vera@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan but it seems like the fediverse could theoretically exist with like 5 users whereas a commercial company needs users for revenue. It feels like we are using the masters tools to try to destroy the masters house

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[โ€“] jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All social media has network effects, in which the value to a user is roughly proportional to the number of other users (probably not fully proportional at the high end, but definitely positively sloped).

[โ€“] oo1@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

probably an "S-curve" type relationship