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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. TikTok is worth ripping for many things, but I find this kind of outrage to be a bit artificial. What social m
by logicalmonster 5y ago
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
TikTok is worth ripping for many things, but I find this kind of outrage to be a bit artificial.
What social media company didn't bootstrap with some kind of self-created profiles sometimes with some kind of borrowed content?
IMO, most dating sites launch with hundreds of hot profiles pre-seeded with profiles managed by the creating team just to solve the chicken and the egg problem.
I believe that Reddit famously created a bunch of fake accounts and started dumb fake conversations just to launch the site and portray some activity.
I'm sure real-estate sites violate terms of service to get their initial houses listed to have any content on their site.
I think this happens to some extent with most sites with user-submitted content. Is anybody under the illusion that this doesn't happen?
- isitmadeofglass 5y agoWhat does that have to do with anything? No one is under the illusion that it never happens that someone bootstraps a bike shop by driving around the neighborhood stealing peoples bikes. That doesn’t make it right though. Obviously the content was valuable to tiktok in that early phase, so they owe a lot to the content creators they ripped off.