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		seydor on April 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock f... I doubt instagram will replace it. Just like Youtube Shorts, they will fail to grab its audience. People who are using instagram/youtube are there because they like the format, and if they wanted tiktok, they 'd go to tiktok

okdood64 on April 24, 2024 | [–]

YouTube Shorts is not really a replacement product for TikTok. They inherently have a different content creation and discovery model. Reels is much closer to TikTok.

Kiro on April 24, 2024 | [–]

I mostly use YouTube for Shorts and Reels is the de facto format of Instagram nowadays.

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