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Yeah I can make a dropbox clone in a one-liner bash command too

Outright dismissal like this should be judged as harshly as the comment itself.

The parent comment explained why they dismissed this in clear language. Yours is a random weird comparison to Dropbox (how is it related to this post? Which side is Dropbox, TikTok or Loops?)

I believe GP is referencing this classic comment from 2007 on Drew's original Show HN post for Dropbox:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

It’s a new trend to shoehorn any random shit into this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224.

I think this is a reference to when Dropbox was first introduced. I recall posts dismissing it as “just something that could be done as well with a bash script”.

And who is dropbox in this situation? A federated implementation for me looks more like the bash script while tiktok would be the dbox

> Yeah I can make a dropbox clone in a one-liner bash command too

Jesus, is this the only argument you people have now? Some decade old comment of a non-business guy?

Parent is right, loops removes precisely what makes TikTok addicting. It’s like removing heroin high for addicts – what’s the point of the injection, then?

At least dropbox isn't addictive brainrot lol

Even the peers I know that use TikTok admit they should really be using it less and that it's total slop.

It's truly the purest interpretation of junkfood in internet form

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