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title: Early Adopters And Inverted Social Proof
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> Hirschman credits the stability of early America with the fact that
> discontents could simply travel west until they felt sufficiently freed from
> its rules and restrictions. [...] <br>
> There’s no limit on the number of possible subreddits, stack exchange sites,
> or wikipedia pages that can be made, so a user can always keep traveling west
> until they find something that’s worth sticking around to defend.

[A great analysis](http://ideolalia.com/early-adopters-and-inverted-social-proof/index.html) of why people are early adopters and how the constantly changing face
of a community can affect their loyality to a product. One of those timeless
reads you should probably re-read every now and then.
