How the fuck did the engineers at Tiktok pull off the American 'ban' so seamlessly. Take it down and then put it back with little loss to functionality.

How do you think they accomplished that with so many accounts.

Anyone works there can comment?

📌

Lots of engineers working round the clock really hard no doubt.

It just has a feature to respond with an error message instead of regular content. Why would it be difficult?

rednote, which is an actual Chinese tiktok, got an influx of "tiktok refugees" and now people wanna move to China... because the Chinese can afford healthcare and food

... kicker is for new years me and the bf watched a horror movie called "antisocial" and it was about a facebook-like app named redroom

I keep just thinking of that...

@electrineer tell me you don't work at scale workout telling me you don't work at scale.

@electrineer that is not the problem. The problem is separation and a switch for multiple versions of the app (both actual versions as different platforms). Is it account level. Geo IP level or even both.
If the platform already supported displaying a regional error message (which is quite likely) and there are already tools in place to identify regional traffic it would indeed be fairly easy.
If not it's a lot harder. Especially if you need to block US accounts not just IP/ISP based traffic origin.

Geoblocking would've been my guess! 🤔