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Is HN missing what Douyin is?

Also known as tiktok, it is on most of my white-collar workers' phones (we are living in China).

WeChat was the elephant in the room 4 years ago, now with mobile payment in China everywhere, yet almost nothing on HN for a couple of years while it was storming China.

From anecdotal observation Douyin seems to be cutting into the social media thing WeChat did with microblogs, while WeChat micro-blogging has enveloped to limited duration posts and closing viewing to friends/contacts only.

Looks interesting. Duoyin is huge. Surprised HN doesn't have tentacles into interest in this.

If I'm the first tentacle sucker, just ask.

( 3 comments | on HN )
Re:Is HN missing what Douyin is? by tlb on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:15PM (#17356736)
A link to an article explaining what's interesting about it would be better than a meta question.
Re:Is HN missing what Douyin is? by lurenjia on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:55AM (#17362735)
The company behind Douyin showed up in HN though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15458720
Re:Is HN missing what Douyin is? by billconan on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:53PM (#17357809)
how is Douyin different from https://imgur.com ?

Or vine? Or instagram ?