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0 pointsapi4y ago0 comments

More money will allow them to develop vastly superior UI and user experience, better graphics, etc., and it will suck so many users from anything else that the other things will become tiny niche environments or die.

Just like what happened with everything else including most of the open web.

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jay_kyburz4y ago

Yeah but, all the interesting stuff happens in the niche corners of the internet.

Let the mainstream play Fortnite, we'll enjoy better games that nobody knows about.

adrianN4y ago

If niche stuff is most interesting to you, then you interests are niche, by definition. The stuff that is interesting to many people naturally tends to become mainstream.

jay_kyburz4y ago

Actually, I think a lot of niche stuff is objectively good, but never gets mainstream attention because it doesn't have a large enough marketing budget. (or never goes "viral")

Dracophoenix4y ago

You do you realize that everything that is mainstream was once a niche that eventually got the attention of millions of people? Computers, for instance.

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jay_kyburz4y ago

Yeah but, all the interesting stuff happens in the niche corners of the internet.

Let the mainstream play Fortnite, we'll enjoy better games that nobody knows about.

adrianN4y ago

If niche stuff is most interesting to you, then you interests are niche, by definition. The stuff that is interesting to many people naturally tends to become mainstream.

jay_kyburz4y ago

Actually, I think a lot of niche stuff is objectively good, but never gets mainstream attention because it doesn't have a large enough marketing budget. (or never goes "viral")

Dracophoenix4y ago

You do you realize that everything that is mainstream was once a niche that eventually got the attention of millions of people? Computers, for instance.

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