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~~Have people somehow forgotten that VPNs exist? Like millions are moving to rednote but the easier way is to literally just, at minimum, get a shitty free VPN, and still have access to tiktok.~~
~~Personally tho, I'd probably opt for a cloud server VPN if I really needed one.~~
Edit: this was a stupid take, I forgot the app would be removed from devices and that it will cause inconvenience.
You vastly overestimate the average person's technical ability.
Honestly, true. I must be underestimating how tired I am and overestimating how much brain power I got left because, I must say, I barely had a single thought when typing that.
Any roadblock in using a social media will turn off 90% of the users.
Which means the creators will be gone, too.
Sure, you could connect to it via VPN, but most of the content you like won't be there anymore.
I fully agree with that, and I was wrong in assuming that it'd be very simple. In my country, we only got online piracy firewalled, so I don't have experience with apps or other kinds of websites getting banned, and somehow I assumed that most of the demographics of a service would try and use it a different way just like how we use VPNs to hop on the pirate bays, but that isn't the case.
VPN's are grand, if you're using a PC, if you're using a smartphone the app is about to be dissapeared, also if your bag is monetization, good luck getting a bank to accept digital deposits from TikTok
Good, they can do something else to regain their sense of self-worth, such as working the glory hole in a truck stop in Bakersfield.
Oh right, I somehow didn't think they'd remove the app at first, I thought they'd just firewall it or smthn. The monitisation part also makes a lot of sense too. Honestly I don't have even the smallest experience with witnessing anything online get banned in my country apart from piracy.