Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels

Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels by oefrha on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:50AM (#32687428)

I’ve always wondered why they are so bad at learning such an obvious lesson from their supposed biggest threat. TikTok seems to always mix it up; even if you do actually want to watch pimple popping 24/7, they seem to throw in some totally unrelated thing once in a while. Turns out people easily find things they didn’t even know they would enjoy this way, and when they have many interests, their feeds are way more engaging.

What’s so hard about randomizing 10-20% of the time?

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Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels by soco on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:34AM (#32688675)

TikTok seems the only one who actually put thought about it, because that's exactly the beef I have with Spotify as well. You play a "song radio" and find a new song so you move to that other song radio but only to get exactly the same list maybe shuffled a bit. Somehow they create bubbles of content and that's it, no way out. At least on Spotify you can change bubbles, while on YouTube good luck.

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Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels by user_named on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:30AM (#32689010)

Exactly. Youtube and Spotify show me the same things for six months at a time.

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Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels by solarkraft on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:10AM (#32688485)

It's probably really easy, it's just crazy that they don't seem to want to. I could imagine them chasing the local maximum.

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