[ehsankia]

I don't understand the point. Every social media's goal is to take advantage of people's desire to be entertained. Youtube, Instagram, etc. Yet TikTik has managed to come from behind and overtake all the other apps. People are so quick to dismiss its algorithm, yet no other app comes close to recreating the experience.

[notpushkin]

That's not because of the algorithm. That's because everybody's already on TikTok.

If you make a new Facebook, you better make something about it different because otherwise people would just stay on Facebook.

[cerved]

it's because of the algorithm, good UX and few, skippable ads

[iso1631]

How did Tiktok start? Everyone was already on youtube.

[ehsankia]

I started using TikTok long before everyone was in it, pre-pandemic, and even then it was already much better than most other apps, and quite immediately too.