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It's actually fascinating to see the re-emergence of "vines" but as parts of other apps. With the explosion of Tiktok, every platform decided to make their own version - YouTube Shorts, Facebook/Instagram Reels, etc.

Really, a format should be created (e.g. file.[short|vine], etc.) that could be then edited by any editor and viewed by any viewer, and all that you'd need to do to copy a YT short to a facebook reel is to copy the file itself to each platform.

It's literally the same exact concept over and over again, just wall gardened instead. So much wasted development time doing the exact same thing.




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