Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by Banana699 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:39AM (#32247854)

Why not "closed world" apps like Whatsapp or Discord ? I personally loath them (specifically Discord) but they seem optimized for the kind of use case you want. Facebook and friends are a huge and dysfunctional towns square, but you don't need a towns square to talk to your family, you need a private shed.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by mst on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:41AM (#32248194)

Those two seem very different to me.

Discord, to me, is "shiny consumer IRC that I hate" (I similarly consider Slack to be "shiny commercial IRC that I hate").

Whatsapp, to me, is "the thing I use to replace SMS when I'm talking to people in other countries and don't want my phone bill to explode."

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by stevenjgarner on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:29AM (#32251658)

One of the things I do enjoy is Google Meet videos with my grandchildren that allow for the video to be saved. I can then save that video in my own (private) blog on my own private server. I have found that recording Facetime QT video on macOS/iOS is too problematic.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by josephd79 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:37AM (#32250231)

If they haven't already, it's only a matter of time before Discord spins up a way for companies to advertise on their platform.

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