@danieldekay

It is a chicke and egg problem: if there are no users and no content, new users won’t come. But if they don’t come, there is no users and content.

So: do we need a way to create a big bang roll-out?

Not necessarily. Others think alike, for a long time already:

http://scripting.com/stories/2008/05/05/boostrappingADecentralized.html

I always work in bootstrapping mode, addressing the first big issue, solving the problem, then advancing to the next one. It’s why so many of the ideas I’ve worked on have become popular modes of communication. Big-bang approaches always fail. I’ve spent decades arguing with people who want to reinvent the world in one stroke. They always try anyway and always fail. Bootstrapping is the only way that works. (Dave Winer, 2008)