Comment on Mastodon Is Bigger Than A Twitter Replacement
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months agoMy 2 cents is that the reason no one switches is nothing is innovative anymore but we are fairly addicted so its not like we’re going to demand innovation. If there’s was some cool new “swipe right” or “get notified when friends are online” type thing then people would check it out. But all the cool stuff has been innovated already and now switching to a new thing isn’t enticing because its the same stuff we all have just moved around differently. Nobody cares about the backend stuff
Think you’re right about the lack of innovation being a big part of it. They’re still out there, waiting for someone to think of them.
Space is BIG. For example, being part of a community project with no borders making something with long-lasting value, for example. That you know you can look back at one day and be glad you were part of.
Blackbeard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah the niches have been filled. Facebook is the personal profile networking thing, Instagram is the photo thing, X-Twitter is the “shout your inner monologue” thing, Reddit the anonymous networking thing, TikTok the short vid thing, Tinder the sex thing. Alternatives to the dominant platforms just won’t catch on because no new gadget is more valuable than a critical mass. We’re in the late stage of social media Phase I, and it’ll take something fundamentally (not cosmetically) different to shake us out of Phase I and kick off Phase II.
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol no. Remember Yahoo? It used to rule the search engines. What is dominant today can quickly fold over in an instant.
Blackbeard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was never dominant the way Google is.
That was in the early days of the internet, when things changed on a fundamental level quite frequently. I’m very specifically making a point about today, not 1995.