TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes'

TikTok has started testing its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in Canada and Australia. TechCrunch reports: The company said on X that it is in the "early stage" of the app's rollout and that the app is "a dedicated space for photo and text content." "We hope that the TikTok community will use TikTok Notes to continue sharing their moments through photo posts. Whether documenting adventures, expressing creativity, or simply sharing snapshots of one's day, the TikTok Notes experience is designed for those who would like to share and engage through photo content," it said.

The company didn't say much about the app's features and functionality apart from the fact that users can log in with their existing TikTok account. Even the app's description in the app stores is pretty light on details. The screenshots on the App Store listing suggest that the posts will appear in two-column grids on the home page. The screenshots also indicate that you can post multiple photos through a carousel post.

I feel old

[Powercntrl]

Like TikTok, Instagram was also another one of those social network things I never really got. I've just never felt the need to share any of my photos beyond the realm of people I personally know, so Facebook has been fine for that purpose. Can't say I've ever cared about acquiring "likes" or other imaginary internet points. I decided to Google "what's the point of Instagram" and a top result was a Reddit thread with someone who said this:

Simply put, to connect and see what friends are up to and for funny memes. I think mainly for younger audiences, it's just entertainment because memes are funny.

I don't think for a personal user it's all about value/status at all. Sure, people can show off things or looks but I don't care about that. I'm not actively looking for any of the best most attractive photos, I'm using it when I'm in the toilet seeing what's up. You know, like on Facebook. Except a lot of people like me and people I know in my age group deleted Facebook because family is on there and it's become an annoying place where people just complain.

So, it's for memes and avoiding old people on Facebook, while you use the toilet. Yep, that about sums up TikTok's demographic nicely, so this new venture should be an excellent fit for them.

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[dohzer]

Like TikTok, Instagram was also another one of those social network things I never really got. I've just never felt the need to share any of my photos beyond the realm of people I personally know, so Facebook has been fine for that purpose.

You obviously never found Instagram's true power-features. Once a user discovers the inability to rewind/fastforward videos, and that one can't easily download images via the app, they become addicted.

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[ChunderDownunder]

There is always Fartbook.
https://letterkenny.fandom.com... [fandom.com]

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[ctilsie242]

I'm sure it is popular with different age groups, but I've found imgur good for Reddit, and if I need to host photos, depending on where, I can use Smugmug or host them as a gallery on my WordPress site. If I'm hosting stuff for a private project, I send a link to a Nextcloud share (with server side encryption on), and when that project is done, I make sure the pictures are backed up and then just dump the Nextcloud container and its backend ZFS encrypted subvolume when done.

Instagram just hasn't done anyt

To be on brand

[Baloo Uriza]

it'll need to be extremely painful to use. Like a column only two and a half words wide and the feed is always on random shuffle. At least mastodon has its feeds backwards (newest first and no way to change this, instead of where you last were and scrolling down to newer posts, in the direction you read)

Blogs

[TwistedGreen]

Hey guys, remember blogs? Do those still exist?

/o\

[easyTree]

Hopefully it's got that stupid-ass pinch-zoom-unzoom mechanic which makes insta so insta

They're both terrible

[GrahamJ]

They're both data collecting ad companies. Don't support them by using them.