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Is the plan to make a new app every 5-10 years when the old one crashes and burns for the same reasons? Surely the VC money will run out at some point.



Well, that’s basically the history of social networks thus far, so, I mean, sure, why not?

Obviously it’d be nice if it was the first social network not to either implode (Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter), or fade into irrelevance (Friendster, Bebo, MySpace, Digg), or just ossify into mind-numbing tedium (Facebook, LinkedIn), but, well, if it does, presumably there’ll be another one along at some point.

(I realise that you could probably argue Digg either way, here. Digg had a multi-paradigm end.)


I'm willing to sign up for a fresh new app every 5-10 years.

If they keep making them, I'll go with it.

I don't think that they're making identical mistakes, but we can't assume that it will last.


This one is at least a Benefit Corp. It's worth a go - seems to be working for, say, Kickstarter, which hasn't enshittified yet.




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