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Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by yreg »

kuratkull wrote: post #56
talivision wrote: post #2

I am very confident the image at the top of this article is generated by any of these currently popular text-to-image models. This feels like the beginning of ignoring artworks I see online, foreshadowed by header images at the start of tech blogs.

This generated image is much more interesting than most stock photos. Stock photos don't have any details, they are meant to be simple and bland. This one is somewhat fun.

I like that they include the prompt, makes it more interesting. Although it's not the full prompt, because the illustrations in their other recent articles are in the same style.

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by oefrha »

saurik wrote: post #89
IgorPartola wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a millennial I can tell you exactly why TikTok is better: 1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work. 2. Reels are often…

> 1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work. OMG this... a million times this :/. YouTube has similar issues--where you wat…

I’ve always wondered why they are so bad at learning such an obvious lesson from their supposed biggest threat. TikTok seems to always mix it up; even if you do actually want to watch pimple popping 24/7, they seem to throw in some totally unrelated thing once in a while. Turns out people easily find things they didn’t even know they would enjoy this way, and when they have many interests, their feeds are way more engaging.

What’s so hard about randomizing 10-20% of the time?

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by danielovichdk »

Stop asking Gen Z for anything. Fuck me, I don't even know what a Gen Z is.

Sounds like a CPU for all I care. A cheap one too.

Instagram is dying ?

No, I am dying. Lend a helping hand. Buy me an ice-cream.

People are cognitive screwed from all this socalled social network bullshit that turns friends, family and idols into a circus of self-proclaimed everything.

Kylie Jenner ? Really ?

I can almost taste the sugary feeling in the mouth of teenagers when they fall over the same line of self-staging freaks.

Turn it off. Buy a small library. Read.

Pack a suitcase. Buy a train ticket. See the world.

Concentrate. Please.

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by timeon »

lrhegeba wrote: post #83
BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any entity that knows so much about you can manipulate you in ways you won’t suspect. Their government isn’t held back by the Constitution and they probably wouldn’t hesitate to influence the citizenry of their main rival on the world stage.

For non-US citizens the US constitution also has no relevance. Thus for non-US citizens it makes no real difference

I'm non-US citizen and still think that there is difference between US and Chinese government.

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by WantonQuantum »

danielovichdk wrote: post #113

Stop asking Gen Z for anything. Fuck me, I don't even know what a Gen Z is. Sounds like a CPU for all I care. A cheap one too. Instagram is dying ? No, I am dying. Lend a helping hand. Buy me an ice-cream. People are cognitive screwed from all this socalled social network bullshit that turns friends, family and idols into a circus of self-proclaimed everything. Kylie Jenner ? Really ? I can almost taste the sugary fe…

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Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by deadmutex »

theshrike79 wrote: post #38
nixcraft wrote: post #14

Now ask the same question for YouTube shorts ;) Hah. Google is pushing shorts hard these days. Honestly, they need to give an option not to show shorts. In most cases, shorts are either from TikTok from the same content creator or re-uploaded by some random person. Even if I liked topic X on shorts, it never suggests similar shorts. It is hard to believe that Google cannot crack the correct algo to show interesting r…

Did you know that Youtube has a game streaming service like Twitch? Neither did I. They've hidden it so fucking well that even though they pay (tens of) millions for exclusive contracts, people can't find it. But shorts they keep pushing on every UI.

They used to have a separate app called YT Gaming.

Per https://www.failory.com/google/youtube-gaming: "Out of the 11 million people that have downloaded the app on iOS and Android, and the more than 200 million watching gaming videos daily, only a small number used the app to do so. Most preferred the main YouTube app or the site."

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by tannhaeuser »

bmitc wrote: post #17

This is the way of the figurative boomer, in the parlance of our times. In 5-10 years, something will have replaced TikTok, if trends of the past continue. It's possible, in the same way that humans broke out of evolutionary balance, that an app such as TikTok and its machine learning algorithms can break out of the evolutionary balance of what teens find intriguing or "in", but that remains to be seen. I don't know…

Because GOOG, FB/META need to hold up reach of their app platform, growth figures, and, ultimately, value of their shares. It's not an either/or strategy anyway, as will be seen by the insane biddings for a perceived next big thing; you can't typically innovate within an established org anyway.

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by inductive_magic »

danielovichdk wrote: post #113

Stop asking Gen Z for anything. Fuck me, I don't even know what a Gen Z is. Sounds like a CPU for all I care. A cheap one too. Instagram is dying ? No, I am dying. Lend a helping hand. Buy me an ice-cream. People are cognitive screwed from all this socalled social network bullshit that turns friends, family and idols into a circus of self-proclaimed everything. Kylie Jenner ? Really ? I can almost taste the sugary fe…

People ask the young generation because they are the biggest indicator as to where things are heading. Consider how many people will read your answer. How much attention of HN-audience-type-people did you just send down the drain for the righteous feeling of ranting off-topic?

Re: Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

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Post by eurasiantiger »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #102
btilly wrote: post #37

Time to trot out http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf again. (Yes, I am one of the co-authors.) Multiple lines of evidence point to the basic value of a social network scaling like `O(n log(n))`. So getting your first million users is hard. But after you've got there, you don't have to be that much better than the competition to win. The conclusion is that social networks should be a lot less sticky and d…

Btw I have wondered for a long time why search on Facebook is such an atrocious mess. But then it struck me: it must be intentional, so you would spend more time scrolling feeds to find that one post you've missed. For this alone they deserve to be dethroned and forgotten.

Remember the ”dumb fscks” quote? Facebook was founded to be hostile towards its users.
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