The default settings on MySpace aren’t worth a great deal right now. The defaults are set as they are for a reason
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
So they start somewhere that works; but there are multiple paths that can work. And we both know Myspace was never dominant like FB is now.
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Replying to @zeynep @gavinsblog
But it was, though! Market share was massive. And anyway that’s not the point. Look at FB’s terror of Snap. Tech monopolies never ever last
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
It was not! Right now, in multiple countries, there is literally no feasible way to communicate with large numbers without FB entanglement.
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Replying to @zeynep @benedictevans
(MySpace is *not at all* a valid comparison at this remove IMO. No newsfeed till 2007 (when it was dying anyway), no AI, no metrics, no mobile, no scale compared to FB, in either user numbers or time spent/day on it)
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Replying to @gavinsblog @zeynep
At the time, it was dominant, yet it failed. That’s the point. Things pass. And today, on mobile, people do not only use FB
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
Is your position that FB's current dominance is similar, more or less, to where MySpace was back then? I would greatly disagree.
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Replying to @zeynep @gavinsblog
MySpace was unquestionably the leader and failed completely. All the data shows that. See also Yahoo, MSFT, Nokia: tech leaders don’t last
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
MSFT is the only comparable one—early industry phase vs mundane phase are quite different. I'm *still* forced into MSFT products every day.
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And MSFT did not just lose its dominance. It was antitrust action in multiple jurisdictions. And it is still minting money on dominance.
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I'll take bet that MSFT still minting good money on Office & Windows in ten years—despite obvious inability to innovate in so many domains.
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