"eventual and unilateral don't really fit, and t..."

https://arbital.com/p/6s0

by Eric Bruylant Dec 9 2016


My vision for Arbital is still the same\. I think of it as a grand experiment: both in terms of community building and software design\. Community building is hard because for a platform to really take off, it'll need eventual, mass, unilateral adoption\. Thankfully we are pretty well connected to all the relevant communities, and so far it seems like there are many people who would like to work together on fixing this problem\.

eventual and unilateral don't really fit, and this sentence does not really make sense in general. Community building is hard because humans are messy systems with all sorts of behavioral patterns and complex interactions, not because we need mass adoption. Also, mass readership and mass community involvement are pretty different, we can do okay with a smallish community of awesome people if they're working well.