If anyone’s interested, I’ve created a [email protected].
Someday, we may have one-sided meme wars!
edit: I just read the sidebar note about contacting the mod team first about advertising. Apologies! Please remove this post with my enthusiastic blessing if you think that this isn’t sufficiently relevant to the UBC community.
I think this is one of those cases where we have to build out the infrastructure in order to remove future friction.
Corey Doctorow (I think) observed in a recent post that companies going public need “hockey stick” growth to impress investors. If they don’t see instant and dramatic success, they’re basically a failure and the money goes elsewhere to find better opportunities. Open systems don’t need that - we can survive on forage for much longer, waiting for an opportunity to access organic growth.
Reddit survived like that for a long time when Digg and Livejournal were dominant. Just another link-sharing service. Then (in Digg’s case) they tried to monetize their users too much or (in Livejournal’s case, Russian oligarchs) someone wanted the service to die, which left an opportunity.
Just existing, biding time, building out the infrastructure: those are wins. The seeds are laid, we can afford to wait for the rain.