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My friends never got Vine but all love TikTok (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by Custoslibera@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 8 months ago

Imagine thinking that Twitter (now X) wasn't doing data mining on vine.

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago

Imagine thinking that any for-profit company built on VC funding won't end up data mining.

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’m certain they did, but the main page of vine was curated by humans at some point. It was organic for a moment in time or at least gave that appearance.

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