And now imagine a world where the people who provide the quality content to tiktok would provide this content not to tiktok, but to some other online service - for example peertube, or something similar. And you would not pay a subscription to tiktok - a capitalist company controlled by „people’s republic“ of china, but support peertube instances and creators.
(Disclosure: some of the videos, i created, are available at peertube and come with a support link.)