People stay on a platform they have come to dislike because leaving requires everyone they care about to agree to leave at the same time.

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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

• Fixing an understaffed team by moving people off other teams does not work, because people are not fungible and the argument inevitably turns political. WLWill Larson17 Jun 2018similar wording
• Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it. MWMolly White27 Sept 2024similar wording
• Policy should secure people's freedom to leave a platform while keeping their community, their purchases and their data, rather than try to keep dying platforms alive. CDCory Doctorow21 Jan 2023similar wording
• Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer. MWMolly White27 Sept 2024similar wording
• Anything loved by many must produce an equal and opposite force of haters; the only escape is mediocrity. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025similar wording

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