at this point all social media will evolve into the exact same formats.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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At one point nearly every platform was adding stories, and now they add long text posts. Everybody wants to feast on Twitter's corpse.
This will definitely not make me use TikTok. I can only imagine what kind of garbage people will post on text form. I'm obviously not the target demographic for that platform but I cannot comprehend what people enjoy about it. I had some old coworkers who used to send me tiktoks daily and they were annoying, insane, made no sense. Now put that in text format.
I wonder if you can listen those text posts with that horrendous machine voice. Well ofcourse you can.
Well I would hope so for accessibility's sake
Every app wants to capture all of your time, but what these app companies don't realize is that it's sometimes better to do one thing really well and capture 100% of time spent on that particular thing.
TikTok already handles text posts - it's called "teenagers pointing at captions on their videos and making faces". It's the culture, and TikTok has excelled at this very video-focused culture. Adding text posts will bore the sorts of people who are on TikTok for videos and may result in less engagement, not more.
tiktok absolutely already has text-only posting for people who want it.
The Internet is a mess
My slice is my mess. The slices owned by corps are theirs (and maybe the people who confuse their identities with them)
Stories, short videos, now short text, I truly don't get why they have to copy ALL the features of each other