I agree, the. UX changes have been huge and so far one of the biggest pains of building a bridge off of Tiktok has been the rendering speed of some things. Tiktok and heavily juiced social media apps genuinely have people operating on a 1-2 second cycle that constantly competes with the scroll/swipe, so having a 3 second load time can make or a break a conversion.

Since we're mentioning differentiated experiences, I'll shamelessly plug this AI-first learning platform that's building on top of protocols like nostr and cashu. The goal is to get people onboarded asap, knowing that I'm competing with Tiktok's pull on attention. Nostr helps achieve this in spades. Apps like https://program-ai.app will then connect to hand-written informed AI tutors like https://robotsbuildingeducation.com, all who manage lightning zaps or cash taps to create scholarships with learning.

I'm currently looking around for getting folks off of Patreon too because even Patreon is a bit too top-down of a relationship with folks as a creator. The creator & viewer relationship needs to return back to a level playing field IMO. I'll take a look at Ditto today. I'm also excited to see the growth of https://badges.page. Gamifying user experiences will be a solid benefit.