Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by dredmorbius on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:33AM
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Founding cohorts matter.
Early online worlds were (often, not always), academics and techies. Even that was often hard going to generate larger appeal. Facebook was Literally Harvard.
Random malcontents have an even higher social hill to climb.
An elite founding cohort tends to regress to the mean. An unsavory cohort ... tends to further radicalise or collapse entirely.
Fandom/hobby groups are more sustainable and often avoid pathological evolution, but rarely seem to develop mass appeal.
And all this before adding financial or business pressures.
Early online worlds were (often, not always), academics and techies. Even that was often hard going to generate larger appeal. Facebook was Literally Harvard.
Random malcontents have an even higher social hill to climb.
An elite founding cohort tends to regress to the mean. An unsavory cohort ... tends to further radicalise or collapse entirely.
Fandom/hobby groups are more sustainable and often avoid pathological evolution, but rarely seem to develop mass appeal.
And all this before adding financial or business pressures.