Instagram wants to lure TikTok refugees with new Reels features

17 January 2025
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  • 19 Jan 2025

TikTok is uncensored. Everything on TikTok feels open, fresh, organic and natural and it's fascinating to watch the diverse range of opinions and viewpoints. The protests in France for example were all over TikTok, but hidden on other platforms. There were videos from Ukrainians, Palestinians, Israelis, Russians.

Instagram's Reels feels heavily censored and so do the videos on Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat. TikTok is the good guy in all of this, trust me. It's the American-owned platforms that are dangerous propaganda tools.

    IpsDisplay, 18 Jan 2025People are already moving to red noteAnd they're finding the harsh truth of Chinese-style censorship. LOL. It's hilarious.

      GregLu, 18 Jan 2025The price is insane too, 8eur/month fo using insta without ... morewhere i live the ads aren't egregious and using insta's not that bad. I just hope they don't make the ads even more insufferable/unskippable cus if they do then it's joever!

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        • 19 Jan 2025

        Cenzo, 18 Jan 2025It's xhongzu or red noteAre you chinese? ;-)

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          • 19 Jan 2025

          Instagram has got some of the most predatory algorithm. When you click a photo, it will start recommending you more similar photos. The worst thing is, you can't undo it on an account, once you made it - no matter what. Any settings and "don't recommend me this kind of content" options don't work at all. I for once accidentally clicked on what seems to be an AI generated photo. Next thing you know, my feed and explore tabs were filled with them. And this is how I was done with this app after just one day and deleted my account and the app altogether. Even on YouTube, you can disable search and watch history, it's not some rocket science to implement.

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            • 19 Jan 2025

            RedNote

              Anonymous, 18 Jan 2025Your country has yet to catch up to rednote or xiaohongshu ... morenah man It's good my region haven't catched up with it yet like It already takes time to get used to a new social media app xD

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                • Anonymous
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                • 18 Jan 2025

                mohammed kareem, 18 Jan 2025okey but what is tha alternative cuz I opened the app store... moreYour country has yet to catch up to rednote or xiaohongshu as it is currently number 1 in the US. The number 2 app, Lemon8, is Tiktok's sister company. 🤣

                  jiyen235, 18 Jan 2025well unlike youtube at least you can just instantly swipe a... moreThe price is insane too, 8eur/month fo using insta without ads and 12 for Insta+FB 😂😂😂
                  They'll see a decline so fast they'll change this, I hope for them, don't need these app 😂

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                    • 18 Jan 2025

                    mohammed kareem, 18 Jan 2025okey but what is tha alternative cuz I opened the app store... moreIt's xhongzu or red note

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                      • 18 Jan 2025

                      Instagram is a wicked app. I hope no one goes there

                        But I heard insta doesn't want to pay the same. At least in India.

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                          • 18 Jan 2025

                          American tradition.. but meta still cannot figure out that people use tiktiok because they don’t want to use instagram or any meta google products, duh

                            Minu, 18 Jan 2025That's straight up ripping off others instead of "... moreOr straight up buy them like with whatsapp.

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                              • 18 Jan 2025

                              Dometalican, 18 Jan 2025Yeah...people moving to Meta....ha...hahaha....Meta-morph-osis.

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                                jiyen235, 18 Jan 2025"TikTok refugees" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Or should we call them "floptok refugees", because that's the only thing existing in reels, that makes sense.

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                                  Smallworld, 18 Jan 2025Zuckerberg said this week that Apple wasn't innovating... moreThat's straight up ripping off others instead of "innovation". Lol.

                                    Anonymous, 18 Jan 2025Too late. Meta dislikers already moved to a tiktok alternat... moreokey but what is tha alternative cuz I opened the app store threads was no.1 on social

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                                      • 18 Jan 2025

                                      0101001110101, 18 Jan 2025Social media is a qualitative bottom. Human exhibitionism o... moreWell said, binary man

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                                        • pma
                                        • 18 Jan 2025

                                        Social media is a qualitative bottom. Human exhibitionism of the stupidest things. Shallow, stupid, low quality, infantile. In addition, mechanisms based on manipulation, antagonizing people, looking for sensation, lies. Regardless of whether it's FB, Insta, Tiktok, Twitter. Moving from one cesspool to another changes nothing.