Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If social networks keep copying features from each other, eventually they will all look the same (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube shorts and Instagram reels are a rip-off of TikTok.

Live streams. Twitch is built around them, but you can also do them in YouTube and Instagram.

Stories. I don't even know who did them first, but now they are identical in Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While I'm no fan of the big tech hegemony, I am more than okay with multiple groups doing the same thing, or trying to iterate on the same concept.

Take Reddit and Lemmy for instance. Both are designed and structured similarly, with Lemmy iterating on Reddit. I wouldn't consider it a bad thing, and I think they're distinguishable enough from each other. It's competition and alternatives like this that prevent one company or platform from dominating one "concept"

Take YouTube for example. None of the alternatives have nearly as much of a following, and I would be happy with someone "copying" YouTube and iterating on the concept to make it better and fix the major grievances. Whether it's PeerTube or otherwise