You're not really addressing GP's point, IMO. The tech isn't really the hard part about Instagram. The market penetration and now monetization is. No one is going to use pixelfed over Instagram because the whole point of using Instagram is for the network effects (clout). If people move/continue to move off Instagram, it will be for something that more effectively connects them to fame and reach, like TikTok.
No, it's not complicated stuff to build something like TikTok and Instagram. But it is complicated to do all the other important parts besides building it, which are just as important if not much more so. To get people to use it, and to incrementally improve it 0.1% more week over week -- that's the part that you need a full company to do, and that's the thing that a lone founder will struggle to do.
No, it's not complicated stuff to build something like TikTok and Instagram. But it is complicated to do all the other important parts besides building it, which are just as important if not much more so. To get people to use it, and to incrementally improve it 0.1% more week over week -- that's the part that you need a full company to do, and that's the thing that a lone founder will struggle to do.