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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by fullshark on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:58PM (#32245837)
More like MTV non longer showing music videos imo. Facebook could have stayed your personal Rolodex and serve that use case but decided to chase engagement wherever it could.

Maybe it was inevitable and necessary to avoid death or maybe they abandoned their primary purpose and turned off their users and therefore the network / social graph from which they derived value.

Or maybe they will continue to print money.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by ardit33 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:07PM (#32246202)
That did happen! MTV was showing more 'reality shows' and such for a while as they were more successful. Then you had MTV2 and MTV3 showing actual music videos.

What killed MTV was youtube around 2007-2008, not another tv channel, but a completely different tech.

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