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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by oarabbus_ on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:13PM (#28795337)
Right, that's why they bought instagram. But that's a far cry from the claim OP made their "network effect was overwhelmed"
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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by ignoramous on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:21AM (#28797243)
I don't think one can break a scale-free network like that of Facebook by playing the same game as Facebook.

One way to counter a scale-free network is to create adjacent scale-free networks that replaces its competition one part at a time. This is what, I believe, WhatsApp (with messaging) and Instagram (with images) were on the verge of doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network#Immunizatio...

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