The amount of people using the Internet and the Web has been increasing geometrically for more than two decades. New users joined new services, perhaps for the reasons I gave in my other comment. Soon enough the existing usenet users were greatly outnumbered, so they went to where the content and the other commenters were.
It’s not an explanation for why new users didn’t join existing services like Usenet, just for why even the people already using Usenet eventually left.
That doesn’t explain why people abandoned Usenet. They had the clients installed, they just stopped using them.
The amount of people using the Internet and the Web has been increasing geometrically for more than two decades. New users joined new services, perhaps for the reasons I gave in my other comment. Soon enough the existing usenet users were greatly outnumbered, so they went to where the content and the other commenters were.
Yes, the network effect. But is that all?
It’s not an explanation for why new users didn’t join existing services like Usenet, just for why even the people already using Usenet eventually left.