This exactly. Too often “tech guys” focused on tool building willfully misunderstand that what makes these platforms so powerful isn’t just the tech infrastructure but the huge groups of people & communities formed there over YEARS. This is why we need to focus on social sciences to understand tech.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
like, yeah, of course no one wants to move to a digital ghost town they've never heard of
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Many don’t have websites or use things like Slack - those communities are stuck.
Often these are groups supporting vulnerable people & exploited the most by tech bro a**holes.