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Instagram is a nest for influencers trying to scam their communities with random products and drops, a cancer, conditioning new generations to consumerism and b

Instagram is a nest for influencers trying to scam their communities with random products and drops, a cancer, conditioning new generations to consumerism and beauty filters, it should be banned It's the complete opposite on tiktok, you see almost exclusively entertainers and creative people So it's no wonder they are trying to copy this, but copying the UI won't be enough if you keep the same userbase The only one close enough to TikTok is youtube, but their Shorts UI/UX is one of the worst i ever seen

rvz 4y ago
There is nothing that TikTok is doing differently than Instagram that is a net positive for society. Replacing one digital crack cocaine product with other digital crack cocaine product but with stronger ingredients and someone else copying the worse parts of it is a race to the bottom. There is no difference with these platforms other than one of them (TikTok) having an addictive Orwellian algorithm that dictates what is seen and unseen and can amplify a dangerous reality distortion field to create a deception of reality such that its users cannot tell what is real or not, even as serious as a war [0] all thanks to the algorithm. So when you have something that is even worse than Facebook, Instagram, etc that is hardly 'The best thing to have happened to the Internet.' [1] [0] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-war-in-ukraine-to-russian-users-1.15921522 https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484