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Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by harryf »

Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by mtgx »

eecks wrote: post #5

I wonder how it can afford Dubsmash over the tech giants - who seemingly wanted to buy TikTok.

Probably because the big tech giants are mostly interested in buying up "market leaders" where they mostly just need to increase monetization options, but the footwork was already done by the company. They are not that interested in "building up" the company, probably also because they know they are clueless about how to do that better than the founders did.

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by isoprophlex »

Reddit has always been shit since the redesign: broken scroll, broken video hosting, dark patterns up the wazoo.

I wonder if/how soon we'll see a degradation to similar poor usability in dubsmash, or if the people working there can manage to hang on to their product as it is...

Re: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

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Post by gruez »

harryf wrote: post #6

Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1ag/why_ar... ... what I wonder if whether that's a lack of engineering effort by reddit or more missing peering agreements or both?

"not working"? It usually works fine for me. The only thing I noticed is that during peak hours the videos would be low quality or would buffer.
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