(This post is focused on the actual Network Effect. But of course content, people/content creators moving will help as well among other things)
Main legacy social media apps suck. So let’s switch everyone to better.
Here’s the solution for the Network Effect. Instead of having everyone switch fully from one to the other just have them have a foot on both sides till everyone switches over eventually.
During that we can also encourage them to get other people on the platform as they use it more
That’s basically what Linux is doing via dual booting and with time/usage people will get off them since they enjoy the experience of the better alternative.
Some YouTubers are already hosting their content on multiple platforms. Many art artists already do that too
Also here are many open source alternatives I hope you will all try out/share with others in case you missed them:
Twitter ➡️ Mastodon & Bluesky
Instagram ➡️ Pixelfed, & Flashes
TkTok ➡️ Loops by Pixelfed, & Spark (Spark.so)
Discord ➡️ Matrix, & Stoat
YouTube ➡️ PeerTube
Meta Horizons ➡️ Resonite (On Steam, free)
Twitch ➡️ OwnCast, PeerTube, Glimesh, & Streamplace
Meetup ➡️ Mobilizon
Facebook ➡️ Diaspora
Snapchat ➡️ ???
Pinterest ➡️ ???
Amino ➡️ ???
Hopefully some groups can be formed to get alternatives for latter 3 done too
XMPP havent tried it yet (Think thats how you spell it)
I think SMS via Signal probably undermines the entire point of it. It’s supposed to be private, if messages are as exposed as text messages by default then their entire mission goes down the toilet.
I get that, and agree, but they could have let the user decide that. Have SMS off by default with a toggle button in settings or something.
Because what’s the point of having a private messenger if you can’t get anyone to use it.