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Social platforms aggressively clone competitors

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Originality in Silicon Valley is a completely foreign concept. The moment an independent app introduces a novel feature like disappearing photos or short-form video, every major legacy platform immediately copies it wholesale. They rely entirely on overwhelming user mass to suffocate the original creators out of existence.

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