The main reason people don’t move to a different messaging app is that “they want to use one app” and “their friends are on it so the one app will be that”.
This makes it hard for everyone.
There is a coordination problem here that is made significantly harder for everyone who cares about it due to the inconvenience of some people, which, I acknowledge exists, but multiplies in the “harm” it does when we’re dealing with a problem of moving a critical mass of people.
My unfair request is not “ignore your preferences”.
My unfair request is “if it’s a not-too-big inconvenience and you don’t actually really care and your pushback is about only using one app or something like that, do it anyway for sake of solving this coordination problem. Having this friction be reduced by 20% or whatever is a big deal”.
Perhaps better explained, if you didn’t already lose me and downvote my comment:
Imagine we’d all go to the same class everyday and meet up and have fun.
And the class wasn’t so good. walls peeling? not such good food? I’m not sure.
And there was another class we could go to.
But if we split up into 2 groups, it’s way less fun. There’s value in having everyone move.
So you start convincing people.
And people say “well we’re used to the first class and everyone’s already going there”. Also, most people didn’t think about it as deeply as you did.
Imagine how badly you’d want them—if they didn’t have some big reason—to just have less friction here in changing their mind.
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The main reason people don’t move to a different messaging app is that “they want to use one app” and “their friends are on it so the one app will be that”.
This makes it hard for everyone.
There is a coordination problem here that is made significantly harder for everyone who cares about it due to the inconvenience of some people, which, I acknowledge exists, but multiplies in the “harm” it does when we’re dealing with a problem of moving a critical mass of people.
My unfair request is not “ignore your preferences”.
My unfair request is “if it’s a not-too-big inconvenience and you don’t actually really care and your pushback is about only using one app or something like that, do it anyway for sake of solving this coordination problem. Having this friction be reduced by 20% or whatever is a big deal”.
Perhaps better explained, if you didn’t already lose me and downvote my comment:
Imagine we’d all go to the same class everyday and meet up and have fun.
And the class wasn’t so good. walls peeling? not such good food? I’m not sure.
And there was another class we could go to.
But if we split up into 2 groups, it’s way less fun. There’s value in having everyone move.
So you start convincing people.
And people say “well we’re used to the first class and everyone’s already going there”. Also, most people didn’t think about it as deeply as you did.
Imagine how badly you’d want them—if they didn’t have some big reason—to just have less friction here in changing their mind.
Ok time to downvote me!