The issue with this is that you’re contributing to a never ending feedback loop.
If a product is successful enough to enable convenient features that everyone likes, that means that nobody will give competition a fair shake because they “just don’t have those features that I need”.
I know that most customers would argue that it’s not their responsibility to give up on superior services just for the sake of giving competition a chance, but then whose responsibility is it?
In the end, products can only grow if you allow them to grow. Same thing with arguments like nobody using Peertube because YouTube has more content creators, or how nobody would use kbin or Lemmy because reddit has a much larger contributing userbase.
If you don’t give competition a chance, you’re only contributing to a monopoly. And then you’re as much to blame as the company that’s doing the monopoly
The issue with this is that you’re contributing to a never ending feedback loop.
If a product is successful enough to enable convenient features that everyone likes, that means that nobody will give competition a fair shake because they “just don’t have those features that I need”.
I know that most customers would argue that it’s not their responsibility to give up on superior services just for the sake of giving competition a chance, but then whose responsibility is it?
In the end, products can only grow if you allow them to grow. Same thing with arguments like nobody using Peertube because YouTube has more content creators, or how nobody would use kbin or Lemmy because reddit has a much larger contributing userbase.
If you don’t give competition a chance, you’re only contributing to a monopoly. And then you’re as much to blame as the company that’s doing the monopoly