You won’t find me on any social media other than Linkedin and Twitter. And on those, I no longer post or interact with people. I keep Twitter because of announcements and Linkedin as a public CV. I also use WhatsApp because alternatives are not really viable (but I reduced its social aspect as much as possible). You’re free to make your choices. Just don’t complain about it, if you won’t heed my advices.
Google is testing on those as we test on animals. ML for only search? Naw.
If everyone turned off their droid, stopped using their email, switched to Firefox, they would still be on top.
Yes. It's better not to, if your going to preach, yeah. As I use no services other than Signal we are just pawns in this game. We are a just pittance of income who are keeping the empire's on top. And who do you run too? DDG is owned by Apple so your only fuelling their empire.
This goes deeper than you could imagine.
If switching cost > perceived benefit why should we expect anything other than status quo? When a truly innovative platform that offers benefit > switching cost, users will naturally flock to it. We're already starting to see that with ChatGPT.
No. Network effects mean that there's not only a high cost of switching away from the largest network, but there's a high cost to use anything other than the largest network. When that bias exists, you cannot infer any preferences from market outcomes.
benefit > switching cost + network cost
This has repeatedly been demonstrated as large networks have been disrupted. Folks switched away from MSN Messenger and MySpace didn't they?
As an illusion sure, in practice not really.
I use Kagi, I bought the family plan so I could try convining my family to use it, did they? No.
Did my family want to use Signal for messaging? No.
Do my friends want to use something else than Discord for communicating with me? No.
Competition exists and in plenty but folk are too mind sucked to want to move platform. If its not broke, why change?
People don't want to change. And until such platforms close their gates or whereby something new comes along that isn't a clone; there will be no shift.