[z92]

> continued dominance of facebook in a lot of countries is a bit of an anomaly.

Scaling for cheap is the winning strategy here. Google had its social network before facebook too. Orkut. Didn't scale cheaply. Invite only to limit load.

Facebook could do it. Fast loading pages serving billions. I was trying gab.com recently. Too slow. Too much non responsive. Even after they are trying their best. And even though they make money from premium membership.

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Just to be clear, you think the company that runs Gmail and YouTube failed at a social network because they couldn't figure out how to scale it efficiently?