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Old 12-23-2022, 03:51 PM   #2294
Enoch Root
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You are missing the point. It doesn’t matter how good the code is now that the users are there. A product would need to be orders of magnitude better to cause users to move.

The societal inertia of these networks is the value. It could be both true that the code is terrible and that their are millions of daily users. Just having a better product does not mean you will ge worth more or have more users.

Now is murk correct? Probably not but saying the code is what drives value just isn’t true at this point. If it was just code people would already be gone. It’s the difficulty in moving together that creates a barrier to leave.
A strong barrier to exit is a fascinating concept, and it is very effective and valuable, but also dangerous and fragile. It's like a dam that does a great job of keeping its client base in tact, until it breaks, at which point it loses all of them all at once.

And right now, Musk is juggling dynamite right beside its base.
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