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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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That’s just how the internet works. Early adopters are those willing to try something unfamiliar.
I guess people forgot how the internet itself used to be a "monoculture" of nerds and weirdos. Weirdos and nerds have been making the cool trendy places that the mainstream first shuns and mocks then flocks to (maybe "ironically" at first) for centuries. Maybe even millenia.
Yeah it’s a bit self-selective. “Trying something unfamiliar” is roughly synonymous with “learning”. And people who treat learning as a hobby tend to share a vibe as they say.
I missed how decentralized early internet was. When the we got to the point that there were only a handful of places people went to it changed how people interacted with the internet.