>>214259mlpol.net Admin here, and I am going to explain to you precisely why mlpol has had difficulty growing, and why you are going to face an
extreme uphill battle in getting your website going. I have tried to explain this to other people within the staff of this website who at one point wanted to transform it into 8chan-but-with-a-different-URL and I was not believed. I do not know if you will believe what I am about to say, but it is true, and I hope you will understand me.
All social media, and really, all websites that rely on user uploaded content, rely on what is called “the networking effect.” That is, that for each additional person engaging with the site, the value of engagement with the site increases slightly. Why do people lurk on 4chan? They want to see what other people have posted? Why do people post on 4chan? They want other people to see what they posted, and to reply to it. Thus, the more people that post, the more value in lurking. The more people that lurk, the more value in posting. The same is true of sites like YouTube, where the more videos that are uploaded, the more value there is in watching, and the more people that are watching, the more value there is in uploading video. Put simply, a site that already has many users engaging it is highly desirable, while a site with fewer users is less desirable.
Social media and other forms of websites based on user uploads are thus naturally occurring monopolies, because they tend towards a single entity dominating the market, with new entrants having an extremely steep barrier to entry. This is why Facebook, YouTube, and 4chan have what are essentially monopolies over their specific markets. This is why Minds and all of the Youtube competitors have difficulty breaking through. And it’s why mlpol.net remains small, and why you are desperate right now. To be desirable to posters, you must already have posters. With no or few posters, the site is desirable to no or few posters.
To be sure, there are other factors in play that affect desirability, like moderation, and these factors occasionally allow a competitor like 8chan to take a portion of the market. But it is easy to overstate the importance of these factors for the vast majority of posters. Even factors like quality of posts is related to the quantity, as an increase in quantity usually means at least some increase in the number of quality posts, and most users are willing to wade through low quality posts for a higher number of quality posts, rather than a smaller number of high quality posts with no low quality.
There are some exceptions. Mlpol.net was able to establish itself because it formed a coherent board community while still on 4chan, slowing a migration to occur as a collective all at once, meaning that there were a decent number of posters at the very start. It also helped that there was no other pony-politics combination imageboard or forum on the internet. But the low number of posts does deter many new posters, and makes growth difficult, as many posters who would otherwise be interested are deferred by a low posting rate.
I know that saying “it’s the posting rate,” or relatedly, “it’s OC creation/greentext writing” may sound trite, but it is said so often for a reason. Because it is the truth.
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