I know of peertube, which is similar to youtube.
But is there anything that is similar to instgram reels, tiktok type stuff.
I imagine it doesn’t exist because the hosting costs would be exorbitant, but I’m curious incase something like it does?
I know of peertube, which is similar to youtube.
But is there anything that is similar to instgram reels, tiktok type stuff.
I imagine it doesn’t exist because the hosting costs would be exorbitant, but I’m curious incase something like it does?
Yeah why did vine fail but tiktok take off? I never understood that
TikTok’s algorithm. It does a lot of things against modern morals but people inherently like them. It is not inclusive and pro-erotic. And ease of use too. Plus state funded money.
So twitter needed a thot detector that calculated skin exposed percent, and put that into everyone’s feed? Then vine woulda taken off, you reckon?
Source
Twitter was financially in a bad shape for a long time, the first year they generated some profit was 2018. Source Vine existed 2012-2017, I think they couldn’t figure out how to monetize it. Twitter was a text based platform, tiktok was designed for video from conception.
But I still don’t know why they didn’t try to sell it instead of shutting it down.
Coub was also nearly shut down in 2022, it seems like it’s hard to profitably maintain a short video service.
One more thing could have an important impact was music rights. Tiktok has special deals with record labels for background music, Coub was Russian, so they could just pirate music. Streaming wasn’t big back than, only spotify existed, labels couldn’t figure yet out how to milk internet users, so I guess Vine couldn’t get as good deals as it would now. Too early, too legal.