Scale and mass adoption matter less than they used to
Quote
Like, you know, and, and, and it's, you can have, you can have a feature or something that is really only used by a small subset of people. And then later it, it can just exist.
Episode 255: Snark Week (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:44:46 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Talking with Nathan Gathright, Dave suggests something people haven't grasped about the last few years, accelerated by AI: scale and mass adoption aren't as important as they were. A feature used by a small subset of people can just exist and maybe take off later, the way Nostr carries on with a small active user base.
Not in the audio. Guest episode (0.35 voice threshold). The framing sentence ('scale and massive adoption is just not as important as it used to be') ends in an Unknown cue, so it's paraphrased in the summary and not quoted. The quoted words are a 5-cue Dave run.