Patreon. URL: https://www.patreon.com/ (visited on 2023-12-08).
This is a website where people can build their own community and find friends! I feel like most websites nowadays have a feature for you to interact with other users, built into a function they built. I heard that interaction plays a very important role in keeping users active and attracting new users.
This small percentage of people doing most of the work in some areas is not a new phenomenon. In many aspects of our lives, some tasks have been done by a small group of people with specialization or resources. Their work is then shared with others. This goes back many thousands of years with activities such as collecting obsidian [p36] and making jewelry, to more modern activities like writing books, building cars, reporting on news, and making movies.
I agree that most things are done by a small percentage of people. I see many examples in real life, not just crowdsourcing. No matter what you do, there is always a small percentage of people who are good, famous, and doing the most work in every field. This is a trend that we are used to, and I think it is also really helpful to think about it in a way so that we realize the more good you are the more 'responsibility' you have,