TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by trts on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:38PM (#28134981)

This has been my experience as well. There are countless amazing, small communities on Reddit, and being able to kick the popular subreddits out of my feed makes it feel like one of the last places that embodies the spirit of the early internet. Namely -- small quasi-anonymous communities where people can sincerely discuss niche interests and discover new ones through the serendipity of interaction.

Once old.reddit.com gets turned off, I worry about how long this can persist. The iOS app has tons of clickbait hooks, useless notifications, invitations to join "similar" large, emotional subreddits full of toxicity and extremism.

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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by dharmab on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:18PM (#28135416)

The non-default niche subreddits are what replaced the BB forums of old.

Interestingly some of the niche subs I'm on also have Discord servers which are lively and interesting, like the days of IRC.

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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by cfjgvjh on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#28136764)

That's really the way to do it. Most of the important info ends up on the sub, while daily shitposts and friendly convos take place on Discord.

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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by doubled112 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:27PM (#28136861)

There are a couple of open source mobile apps that might save it, assuming API access doesn't eventually get killed too.

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