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Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India and erased working-class creators
- throwawaysea 5y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833866
- jp0d 5y agoTo be fair most of the "content" on either of these platforms can be actually labelled as "content". If anything, it probably helped those young people get some real life skills rather than wasting their life in a digital social bubble.
- yessirwhatever 5y agoWtf is a working class creator? Have we reached peek societal dependence on social media and accompanying bullshit? On that point, the label “creator” of the process of thinking of and shooting 5 to 10 second entertainment videos that are 90% crap, 9% bullshit, and 1% actual effort, is devaluing the whole process.
- firecall 5y agoWorth a read!
- st55 5y agoThe article is BS. Working-class creators are on MXTakatak and Moj instead of Instagram, and that's where their audience is. Those apps are doing very well. You don't need an international messiah app to save the working class of India. They can figure things out for themselves.
- vages 5y agoThe article mentions Moj. It does not present it as a very popular alternative, though, if that’s why you still mentioned it.
- unmole 5y agoTikTok's recommendation system is said to be creepily good. This allows content creators to find an audience. While the local clones can mimic the look and feel of the app, I doubt their recommendation system is anywhere as good.