It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there’s an industry I’m morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn’t even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that’s a non-zero loss even if they aren’t aware of it.
Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I’m doing the right thing and that’s enough for me.
It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there’s an industry I’m morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn’t even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that’s a non-zero loss even if they aren’t aware of it.
Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I’m doing the right thing and that’s enough for me.