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sissichu t1_j2z0kou wrote

Reply to comment by njpunkmb in Why TikTok’s future has never been so cloudy by prehistoric_knight

And how would you go about convincingly people to switch platforms?

Look at YouTube. Plenty of other sites have tried to become the new YouTube. I think even Microsoft tried with Vimeo or something, and failed to garner substantial userbase.

It's not that TikTok does something all that special. It's just the cool thing right now. Which is pretty ducking terrifying that people are ok with TikTok.

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pilgermann t1_j2zy8yz wrote

Inertia, too. Like, there's almost no reason to still use SMS style messaging. In fact Apple's decision to make their messaging largely incompatible with texting outside their ecosystem is a huge reason for everyone to just move onto a platform like Whats App (yes, I know who owns it) or even something like Slack or Discord.

But here we are. I mean hell, the phone companies were charging for texts not so long ago and we still stuck with it.

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