ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 week ago
All he has to do is force it front of people’s eyes instead of Wikipedia. It doesn’t actually have to be useful, just in the way.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 week ago
All he has to do is force it front of people’s eyes instead of Wikipedia. It doesn’t actually have to be useful, just in the way.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If it doesn’t do anything useful, I don’t think any amount of shoving in front of people is going to amount to much uptake beyond some cursory fiddling to determine its uselessness.
People hand out flyers to every passerby too, and nearly all of those end up in the nearest trash bin.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Facebook, Twitter, and the general burning of the ‘old’ internet suggest otherwise.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Those caught on because they’re basically addictive drugs. Furthermore, while it may be hard to remember at this late stage of the game, those services did have genuine value to some users at the beginning. Today’s versions of those products have gone through countless iterations since then, each one reducing value to the end-user and increasing value to the data buyers and advertisers, like the proverbial “slowly boiling the frog”.