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Correct me if I’m wrong, but Snapchat invented the whole “stories” feature right? It got copied by all the other social media apps pretty quickly.

How do you even innovate in that landscape anymore? TikTok short form videos got copied quickly too. Gone are the days where something like Instagram can sit pretty with the whole vintage filter novelty, other companies just immediately copy it now.

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Instagram copied TikTok as well (with Reels), but that went nowhere. ByteDance is now almost as big as Meta itself.

It is inevitable that there will be a thousand clones of every possible product or feature as soon as it is launched. It's on the company to give their users reasons not to switch away.

It’ll take a major paradigm shift. Something so radically innovative and different, that it cannot possibly be cloned by current industry players.

Think of what the iPhone did to the mobile market. That’s the kind of disruption needed in the social space.

Anyone saying it’s impossible isn’t think creatively enough.

Right. Like a social network that’s VR only would seem crazy today but maybe a no brainer tomorrow

I think the horizons chat thing is interesting.. basically if you can bring together basically live conversations that adds another dimension.

> TikTok short form videos got copied quickly too.

Yet none of the copycats get remotely close to the popularity of TikTok itself. This time copying doesn't work.

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