Most people don't mind enough to put in any effort to move to something less sucky.
Some do, and you get things like that one paid search engine that a few people here like to praise, or the various replacements for the big "social" sites.
Some do, and you get things like that one paid search engine that a few people here like to praise, or the various replacements for the big "social" sites.
of course, not all social media is bad, I think. maybe. -but I think it's easier to get people to make the government ban Facebook/Instagram/Reddit/whatever than have people individually switch; it's sort of inherently antisocial for a person to peel off from the main hive and switch to a smaller self-selecting platform, I might argue.
There are two things there that tend to work together building each other up at the expense of individuals.
One is technology allows things to scale massively if you insert enough money.
The other is there are massive amounts of capital available for those that can spin a good enough story that said investors will get a return.
These two things together tend to lead to a few dominate sites at the expense of all the others. Especially when it comes to social sites and the network effects from them.
But it doesn't only affect social sites. In countries with strong IP laws like the US it leads to a few businesses that can raise capital to corner their markets by buying our or bullying any competitors leading to almost no competition.