My conspiracy theory is TikTok was allowed to succeed to give Facebook a competitor so it couldn't be accused of being a monopoly.
Why Instagram failed to become TikTok
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#12Honestly find that Instagram tries too hard to show me thirst traps - that I’m not interested in. It assumes that since I’m a male, I must automatically overwhelmingly like looking at attractive women.
Its too one dimensional.
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#13This may be one reason but it doesn't apply to me and I have used both significantly. I spend far more time on TikTok now than Instagram and that is for a few reasons which may appear minor but make the difference: - When you open instagram you will see a photo/video and after a few seconds you are sent to the top unable to find what you just saw. TikTok does not do this unless you swipe out. - Videos on instagram ca…
For me the reason is actually much more simple - I just get better content. Instragram gives me bunch of marketing and influencer stuff not unlike the crap on Facebook feed. TikTok has much more dumb entertaining content. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#14Slightly digressing, thought atleast in India, Instagram has started catering to a lot of serious businesses especially startups. If you want to market, go to Instagram.. Well Tiktok has been banned but it was never taken here as a serious platform by businesses.
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#15My conspiracy theory is TikTok was allowed to succeed to give Facebook a competitor so it couldn't be accused of being a monopoly.
And who would have masterminded that tridimensional chess play?
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#16Honestly find that Instagram tries too hard to show me thirst traps - that I’m not interested in. It assumes that since I’m a male, I must automatically overwhelmingly like looking at attractive women. Its too one dimensional.
I actually hardly ever see thirst trap posts, my feed is pretty much just an endless wall of memes.
Maybe it’s because I signed up with a burner phone number and I avoid (as much as I’m able) giving Meta any scrap of data to link to my IRL identity
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#17Both are doing the same thing we saw happening to real-estate leading up to the 2008 meltdown.
Replace real estate with Attention and its the same story. Attention is finite just like Land. There is only so much of it that can be sold limited by money supply in the system. Once that limit is reached cook up bullshit to keep selling real estate and in this case view counts up.
Interesting difference is it's not just about bubble bursting but also info sewage accumulating in people's heads through this notion that info flow into people's heads can forever increase.
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#18This may be one reason but it doesn't apply to me and I have used both significantly. I spend far more time on TikTok now than Instagram and that is for a few reasons which may appear minor but make the difference: - When you open instagram you will see a photo/video and after a few seconds you are sent to the top unable to find what you just saw. TikTok does not do this unless you swipe out. - Videos on instagram ca…
Instagram recently removed keyboard slipping in stories. Now it’s useless. Some people have 50 items in their featured stories.
If you stop/switch while watching anything, you’ll have to start one again. If does allow you to scrub within certain videos but the UI is very finicky.
They try to trick you into “opening” ads by swapping gestures for ads (swipe down is different)
TikTok is simply a lot faster in terms of ui and responsiveness.
At a certain point, if will hang with videos until you change networks. Might be related to my network, but if it’s the only app that has this issue.
Search is just bad… super bad. I have to rely on google to search on Instagram
No links/ ways to go to part 2 etc.
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#19Honestly find that Instagram tries too hard to show me thirst traps - that I’m not interested in. It assumes that since I’m a male, I must automatically overwhelmingly like looking at attractive women. Its too one dimensional.
If you want to have a nice experiment, create a new FB account and identify as a 30-40yo male.
Don't like any pages or anything, then check the suggestions: It's a 100% softcore porn for horny dudes.