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TikTok creators mourn app where 'overnight' success is possible (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 29 minutes ago

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.