The First Mover Advantage is not exclusive to social media. It’s inherent to life in scarcity. First to run to the feast gets the pick of the food. First to run from the tiger has the most targets between the tiger and their bum. First company to sell a thingle gets 100% of the market until a competitor arrives, including 100% name recognition, 100% network dominance, etc.
One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful.
Submitted 9 months ago by DandomRude@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Sunsofold@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 9 months ago
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I don’t understand the point of your comment. It’s the First-Mover Advantage, not the “First Mover always wins in perpetuity”.
nucleative@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Most social media is the wrong format for long-term discussion. Whatever you post, it will soon be replaced by something newer.
Consumers just want that quick dopamine hit every time they open the app.
There are still quite a few phpBB-style bulletin boards out there with threads that survive for years. I think that’s the social media you’re looking for.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Social media?
More like… The regular media. RIP the newshomesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I dunno, somehow tumblr seems to do ok with the considered takes.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
What you do is you go into the tumblr mines to screenshot someone else’s considered takes, and then be the first to post it somewhere else.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wh- whaaaaat? Ha ha. I don’t - that’s not - I would never! OMG that’s just so crazy to think. That people would, y’know, do. That.
foggy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That is what aggregators served to defeat. Like reddit or Lemmy. That’s what votes and “top hot trending” filters are all for.
Not saying the resolve the issue, just saying this is well known and understood
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Instructions unclear, upvoted without reading.
sanderium@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
What do you mean by first come, first served exactly? Are you refering specifically to interactions between news outlets and users?
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This, basically
sanderium@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
That makes sense
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What kind of slob gets their opinions from the comments sections of a local news outlet?
Hell, do major publications even have comments sections anymore? I’m lucky to see the first paragraph of a story, nevermind getting all the way down to the bottom of the article to see what some random assholes think about it.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
That same problem still exists even when sorting by upvotes, because the earlier a comment is posted the more people will see and be able to vote on it, pushing it higher.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, the quality of content hardly matters if you’re late. If you waited just one day to respond to this post, no one would notice your comment.
sanderium@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I guess that is true, but that would only be a negative thing if you wanted attention(which is not necessarily a bad thing). If one is not sure people would respond your comment, one can always mention a post from the past and ask whatever information you were looking. And I would argue this happens in real life aswell, you can’t always force a joke on an old topic at a dinner or party.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fortunately, you can just sit on it and wait for the inevitable bevvy of reposts.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is Lemmy I regularly get replies to three month old comments.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
First!
Fleur_@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Well it’s not like people are really here for long format posts. Those people are probably reading books.