Apple and Google as the bottlenecks for app distribution is what makes the TikTok forced divestiture possible. I wonder if ByteDance has considered rebuilding TikTok as a PWA to skirt the law. Not an ideal experience, especially without US hosting, but video sharing should be fine via the web.

@manton The web app for TikTok is quite robust already. I can upload long form videos, look at analytics, DM, scroll my feed. I wonder if they've been planning this for a while.

@manton US: *blocks domain and IPs*

@iChris Cool. Yeah, when I said "rebuild" that was too strong a word. Just refocusing on a first-class web UI.

@brandonscript Ha! Ironically the US would have to have its own "great firewall"... The most we could do is stop AWS and Cloudflare, not really enough.

@manton The site could be banned anyway

@manton PWA a tough sell for ordinary users who have no idea what a browser is. My wife an example, she uses computers all day for drug development but has no idea how to use Safari 🙁

@manton but it would be NOTHING LIKE CHINA'S at all not at all

@manton this actually the only way I interact with TikTok. I don’t trust them to make an account or download the app. I follow the link in a burner browser, then wipe it.