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As has been said before this service is either going to kick out westerners (either to their own siloed version based on geo-location and phone number location) because it's letting in all these horrible reactionaries and propaganda that 1) annoys Chinese users 2) the great firewall exists to prevent -OR- the US will ban it within months, probably sooner than later given they at least had US defense contractor companies holding US Tiktok data whereas this stuff may be held somewhere in Asia or even China itself. It is even probable that the heights of the US propaganda apparatus have noticed this and are using an opening to carpet bomb propaganda on audiences they can't usually reach with the plausible deniability of "just being regular Americans".
Otherwise I'd definitely sign up.
I’d sign up anyways. I feel like the positive interactions happening are well worth seeing, regardless of what happens with the app in the future.