Diagram of a network effect
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Before I talk about the Fediverse -- and how revolutionary it is -- it's important to understand what a network effect is.
To sum up: much of technology's effectiveness is tied to the number of users that can use it.
Let's take a telephone.
If only two people in the world had a phone, it would barely be usable as technology. After all, you can only talk to two people.
But if everyone had a phone, now it's extremely effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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