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Politics aside, it's crazy Facebook / Instagram / Youtube haven't successfully cloned TikTok yet. No doubt network affect plays a role, but from what I've read,
by dirtyid 6y ago
Politics aside, it's crazy Facebook / Instagram / Youtube haven't successfully cloned TikTok yet. No doubt network affect plays a role, but from what I've read, western clones have been very lacking. Maybe US is just not competitive when it comes to quickly copying and iterating designs like China is. It's a skill. Google Meet apart from great transcription feature still feels miles behind Zoom. Wonder how Indian developers are doing after the ban. JioMeet is pretty much a 1:1 Zoom clone, anyone comment on what replaced TikTok?
- soared 6y agoReels on Instagram launched a couple weeks ago and it appears to be pretty active. I haven’t seen usage numbers yet
- matsemann 6y agoReels suck, though. Maybe that's because Instagram's explore algorithm sucks, though. I mostly follow sports/cycling/ski stuff on Instagram. What is the most liked/viral content in any category..? It's probably a woman with tight or almost no clothes on. So even when I get a ski video, it's often some babe posing in ski boots and nothing else. Or for cycling it's a woman with the top unzipped. Opening Instagram is basically NSFW even though I've never liked a picture like that or follow those kind of accounts. And well, most of the content on Reels are reuploads of TikToks or old viral videos. So not much interesting to see.
- bhashkarsharma 6y agoThere are a couple of Indian apps[0] trying to replicate Tiktok functionality. Many of them saw a surge in usage after Tiktok got banned. Not sure about the current numbers though. [0] https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/mitron-chingari-roposo-indian-tiktok-alternative-6483058/ https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/mitron-c...