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This is not about an IPO or infinite user growth potential in the next quarter. If we want to build a better world, some people must be left behind.
If you leave too many people behind you aren't building a better world, you're building a walled garden.
Progress is not linear. Young communities should and do alienate low effort and disinterested parties from participating while allowing anyone sufficiently interested to participate. We will find out if federated communities work because people will try to make them work in good faith, and if the core idea is good, it will be made universally applicable. The digital soldiers that thanklessly represent the technological status quo will always concern troll anything that isn't made by one of four companies for being insufficiently popular. Their input, like all the clamors of old-guard clingers-on will wash away, and they will be left with the basement full of floppy drives they thought would last forever. And the world will continue to turn and normal people will en-masse use technology that was once dismissed as having "too much sign-up flow friction" or "cognitive load" by patagonia wearing matcha sippers: people that will fall out from the world's grace just as quickly as they entered it.