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Facebook’s TikTok clone lasso is shutting down ahead of the Instagram Reels launch, so basically Fb lost 2 years by half-assing. Brb, gotta go save my zero Lassos

12:27 AM · Jul 2, 2020

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I feel like it got yeeted out of the gym entirely

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Just look at his track record everything is dead that has launched from inside of facebook’s lab, the only things functioning were not anything fb created in house, its ones they have aquired, not an opinion...facts. This is what Mark said about tiktok 😳🤔

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haha...I wrote that article

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Copying the “stories” format from Snapchat seamlessly integrated into Instagram. “Reels” isn’t going to work though. TikTok is explicitly about performance. Like all social media, Instagram is also a performance, but not in the literal (cringey) way that TikTok does it

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Yep, TikTok's microentertainment is completely different from Instagram's biographical social media

'Content network effect' makes TikTok tough to copy

Many TikTok videos don’t start from scratch, so neither can its competitors. TikTok is all about remixes where users shoot a new video to recontextualize audio pulled from someone else’s clip, or...

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Did they not port the code & learnings to Instagram?

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Certainly some shared backend infra but I don't think they just ported it. Reels was more advanced

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I forgot this was a thing

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That puts you in the majority

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