Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.

Now that ownership has changed, there's an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that's already a visible downgrade.

I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.