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Instagram announced a new video creation app Sunday amid legal struggles faced in the U.S. by TikTok, another social media platform with a focus on visual content.

“Today we’re announcing Edits, a brand new app for making videos on your phone,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video posted on the platform. 

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Instagram is already a video app tho?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

guess they realised Instagram isn't ohio skibidi amongst younger generations and decided to rizz the kids with a thing that looks new but is the same

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

On god no cap straight printer no fax

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

CapCut was THE app for editing video. It was made by Bytedance. It was banned along with TikTok.

This is Zuck trying to take over that niche

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder if there are any other apps that they can ban for anti-genocide and then steal their product?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Instagram reels are full of unmoderated racist jokes and sexualized content. I hate it, but I am not active enough to diverge it away from that default state