Posit: there hasn’t been a sustained break out social app not funded by a big tech company since Snap?

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

What candidates come to mind from each of the following buckets?

1. Funded by big tech and sustained
2. Not big tech funded, fizzled out

Working on Emergence.

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Worth noting that (2) are both very weird edge-cases:
• BeReal: nostalgia app, basically IG 1.0
• Clubhouse: never-seen-before pandemic

Innovation in social is clearly being constrained if you have to ship an asterisk of a feature or need a global consumer behavior shift to exist. Social has to be creatively freed