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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The primary reason most people use social products (and stick around) is their friends are using it. This is why invites and contact upload are core UX to any successful social network. The secondary reason is there is entertaining or interesting content. This is why algorithmic feeds have won. Nothing else matters.
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
You‘re probably right for a statistical majority of users. I onboarded FC bc of a recommendation of a friend. But before coming here I knew nobody
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
But friend recommendations are the primary way social networks grow. Nikita Bier has a concept of "density of recommendations". Most people won't install something until 3 people they know have mentioned it.
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