Web3: Why So Leaky?
--- the incomplete story of web3, and its user retention problem --- (note: if you are an up-to-date industry insider, you can skip directly to the fourth section: The Leakiness Problem) For very online people, Twitter was a mainstay for the last decade, despite its one-hundred faults and despite the downhill trajectory of the quality of social interactions on the platform. During the very-online pandemic years of 2020-21, web3 arrived on the scene with its enticing airdrops and its utopian p...
Web3: Why So Leaky?
--- the incomplete story of web3, and its user retention problem --- (note: if you are an up-to-date industry insider, you can skip directly to the fourth section: The Leakiness Problem) For very online people, Twitter was a mainstay for the last decade, despite its one-hundred faults and despite the downhill trajectory of the quality of social interactions on the platform. During the very-online pandemic years of 2020-21, web3 arrived on the scene with its enticing airdrops and its utopian p...
Network of Free-Agent Clusters
How indie-microbusinesses and antibiotic resistant bacteria are surviving and thriving Most people have a small number of people in their direct acquaintance but almost every pair of two random people can reach one-another via a handful of intermediary connections. Dunbar’s number puts that degree of separation to six. Facebook recently said this number (the average ‘degree of separation’) is around 4, as calculated from the social-graph data of its more than a billion users. Sociologists hav...
Network of Free-Agent Clusters
How indie-microbusinesses and antibiotic resistant bacteria are surviving and thriving Most people have a small number of people in their direct acquaintance but almost every pair of two random people can reach one-another via a handful of intermediary connections. Dunbar’s number puts that degree of separation to six. Facebook recently said this number (the average ‘degree of separation’) is around 4, as calculated from the social-graph data of its more than a billion users. Sociologists hav...
