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You should never be fully reliant on a single corporate platform if you make a living selling goods or services.

You can be fully aware of this and still have issues building up your platform elsewhere.

We utilize every platform equally. TikTok organically grew at least 5x the followership for our business, meanwhile Meta gouges us for advertising to be seen at all and we see worse results and interactions there.

The ban of TikTok will have resounding effects even if people are utilizing the alternatives. I've seen far too many people who haven't used TikTok and the alternatives for their business, or are not business owners at all, declare their opinions as facts when they have no actual experience in this space.

I'm not saying this explicitly includes you, I don't make presumptions about your experience in this space.

That's because most of the users are there. Now they will go somewhere else, and you can utilize whatever becomes the next big platform.

Regardless, the parent is correct. If you're reliant on a single platform, for whatever reasons, you're vulnerable to being fucked over by that platform. Practically speaking, how is TT being banned different than being arbitrarily banned from TT?

And we put PayPal and Google on blast every time they ban a creator because they are more than one of many, they’re the main place everyone goes.

No, we don't. Most of the people affected end up just moving on. It's only a few rare instances where someone has enough of an audience to 'put them on blast'.

Which will be impossible if people stop using cash.

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