YouTube shorts and Instagram reels are a rip-off of TikTok.
Live streams. Twitch is built around them, but you can also do them in YouTube and Instagram.
Stories. I don’t even know who did them first, but now they are identical in Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp.
But they mostly fence their walled gardens to grab users personal information to sell to suspicious corps and govs. #OptOut!
#threadsCount me shocked!!! /s
While I’m no fan of the big tech hegemony, I am more than okay with multiple groups doing the same thing, or trying to iterate on the same concept.
Take Reddit and Lemmy for instance. Both are designed and structured similarly, with Lemmy iterating on Reddit. I wouldn’t consider it a bad thing, and I think they’re distinguishable enough from each other. It’s competition and alternatives like this that prevent one company or platform from dominating one “concept”
Take YouTube for example. None of the alternatives have nearly as much of a following, and I would be happy with someone “copying” YouTube and iterating on the concept to make it better and fix the major grievances. Whether it’s PeerTube or otherwise
Lol before tiktok there was vines on Twitter, tiktok ain’t original either
