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420420420 | 2 years ago

Reddit refugee here, can someone explain why moving everyone to kbin.social is not being talked about?

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danaris|2 years ago

To some extent, the answer to that question is circular: it's not being talked about, because no one knows about it. No one knows about it, because it's not being talked about.

As we've seen with various other social media implosions in the recent past, a big part of what makes a migration successful is exactly what made the social media service successful in the first place: network effects. Get enough people on board, have them spread it to their own circles, and you'll hit a critical mass and be able to migrate to the new service with most of the community intact.

Unfortunately, far too often the conversation around where to migrate to looks like the XKCD "Standards" comic [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/