

Facebook and Google was always about friends family and local before any random and stranger interaction becomes relevant.
Reddit and Lemmy is all about strangers. Oftentimes you dont even want people to know you or care about that. So userbase is way easier to create without feeling as if it was too small.
Facebook started locally and slowly created circles until the entire world found their friends and families and joined themselves
Its similar to Tablets. Nobody sees a fucking point in a redundant device until people see it.
Many people still dont have tablets but it is nowhere an unneeded device. It is successful.
This VR/AR glass is indeed the most advanced and well designed glass, miles ahead of what is available. Now it depends on how well it is executed bc some feature are actually useful and intriguing.
Tablets have been around longer than Ipads but they werent nearly as well designed and advanced as when Ipad was announced