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TikTok creators mourn app where 'overnight' success is possible (www.bbc.com)
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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

~~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.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You vastly overestimate the average person's technical ability.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 5 months 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.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months 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.