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.

emergenceuniverse.com

I’m excited about Farcaster but I don’t think we’ve found a break out social primitive yet.

What social apps are you excited about? 

What do you think has the most promise to break out that fits your original criteria?

But -- wouldn't TikTok be a perfect example of this? ByteDance, a Chinese software startup, had to build a compelling product and a user base outside of the US before it could succeed in the US. And what happen to Vine is evidence as to why new Social Media products struggle to succeed if initialized in the US.

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