Many pro-social apps designed to respect attention are built to compete with Instagram and TikTok but get out-competed and fail, suggesting that without being able to modify platforms themselves, alternatives cannot effectively compete.

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Ezra Klein

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I get a huge number of press releases for all these pro-social apps... and watches one after another after another after another basically go nowhere

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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