@tchambers

But this argument seems to miss the very importance of the network effect, so it comes across as both circular and Pollyannish.

The network effect drives growth and provides value. Heck yeah, that’s the thing the successful platforms have going for them, but to say Fediverse will match that value once it has lots of people misses that without first having that value it will have trouble attracting those lots of people.

It’s like saying the only thing dollars have over Bitcoin is that they’re accepted so broadly.

Well… yeah.