The topic of the genesis community on social networks is an interesting one. You only get one shot.

With Facebook you had the cool kids at Ivy league universities. Had Mark Zuckerberg been a freshman at BYU instead of Harvard would Facebook have gone anywhere?

Maybe the composition and flavor of the genesis community is one of the single largest factors in success. No tech is going to make up for a genesis community that (a) can’t be quarantined like Reddit and (b) pushes more people away than it helps keep around.