• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    The problem is that systems like this have strong network effects working in favor of the established options, nobody develops for platforms without users, nobody wants to use a platform without apps, development has more resources (existing libraries, tutorials, reference documentation,…) on existing platforms,…

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      4 hours ago

      So, help break the circle. You can target any of the nodes you mentioned.

      • develop for the platform even if it has no issues (file it as “future-proofing”, “engineering concept”, whatever).
      • use the platform while waiting for apps to come up, provide feedback on what apps are needed (and provide feedback on what can be done app-less, which is even more important).
      • provide resources for develpopment (this one is somewhat more restricted).

      None of the technologies that are abusing the network effect today started with a full charter of users.