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by hk__2 108 days ago
Switch to what exactly?
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If there is nothing else, then you as a customer has screwed up with it before, right? And then the entire strategy/philosophy is maybe to be reviewed?!

Or, in other words: If there is no alternative, this is due to your own faults. Either deal with it, or find ways to undo your mistakes.

How is it the customer’s fault that no good alternative to TikTok exists?
Alternatives to private messaging on TikTok?

Uh, Signal. SimpleX. Session. XMPP/OTR. PGP.

Discussing things on TikTok, that the government must not know about, seems a bad idea.

Exactly. And once those ones are established: Why not have all discussions there; not just the ones where you explicitly want to hide something (for whatever dubious or legit reason).
Because you know someone's TikTok handle and you don't know their email address and PGP key
Yes, indeed, as far as I understood younger people, they'd definitely do a lot of "very smart things" (tm) before they get the idea that one can indeed exchange email addresses via tiktok. Guess what: It's not solely for emojies! :-p Theoretically - although no one ever did - you _could_ exchange useful information there as well.