alt Hacker NewsNetwork effects will keep a person on a platform until a critical mass of their social circle decide to leave all at once. I'm no expert, but I suspect that that critical mass is pretty high, maybe more than 50% of a person's circle. So it's not exactly vanilla free-market competition. Entrenched players have a pretty big advantage.
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krystalgamer • yesterday at 3:52 PM
what does your social circle being on Instagram bring to you? seriously, this picture-sharing app has evolved into this content spread machine that brings very little value.
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Ah Network effect, That's why we all are still using Skype, microsoft messenger and ICQ.
You don't have to wait for everyone to switch, in fact it's pretty normal to reach different people on different chats.
https://xkcd.com/1810/