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I have friends on Blue Sky that I first met online on IRC in the 1990ies. You just keep migrating and finding your people over time, I guess.

Yup. It's 2025, internet patterns are becoming clear-ish. Services rise, fall, people move for lots of reasons.

It's the nature of the internet now.

You can see why this site in particular would not like that story. Network effect is major part of many pitches and valuations.

The forum here is interesting. I agree with your premise, but sometimes it doesn't shake out that way. Weird dynamic.

Granted network effect does "work" to some extent.