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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Just proving US government right tbh.

So, US said: "TikTok is too powerful and has too much influence" and then people continue to be influenced. I kid you not, most trending rednote tiktoks right now are about price comparison between China and US with topics like: "veggies are like 2$ in China when they are 6$ in the US" with absolutely zero awareness of how economies work:

  • median hourly salary in the US: 27 USD
  • median hourly salary in China: 5 USD

Chinese vegetables are more expensive.

You could attribute this to people just being financially stupid but I think there's definitely some truth from US government pov that China has a lot of propaganda power over US citizens and I say this as non-american myself as it's quite apparent as a 3rd party observer.

Personally I still think low level laws that protect privacy of all americans is the way to go but America will never sacrifice free market money like that.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Man, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts must be really shit if the TikTokers didn't even consider them for a second lmao

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

YouTube Shorts are the absolute evil

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

If you carefully cultivate your subscriptions and watching habits it's not bad. I get mostly stuff I'm subscribed to, a movie cut into thirty second chunks (right now it's Braveheart), tv clips with one of three pieces of music overlaid, a mix of benign recommendations that are mostly meh but sometimes funny, and thirst traps. So... it's not good but I do sometimea see something worth following.

It used to be worse, I think abandoning guntubers was the right call. I used to have Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson pushed at me.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 points 4 hours ago

They were just reposted tiktoks, make it make sense.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Instagram has a shit algorithm, yt shorts are generally just worse forms of yt or reposts from ticktok/insta. People are willing to tolerate a lot of data selling already, so why should they care that it's being shared with the CCP?

[–] Papacito8400@lemmy.today 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are they allowed to talk about tiananmen massacre I wonder.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Are they allowed to talk about &%$!@$+×# &%;%$ I wonder.

Whats that?

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

You know, the LALILULELO!

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I’m amazed at all the CCP dick sucking here. It’s like I stumbled into r/Sino

操你中國政府

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yea, I made a post to my people to come to the fediverse. While we have capitalist and communist forums, ultimately the fediverse sits in the anarchist camp.

I like it because I'm suspicious of tankies and hate musk fucks. A nice 3rd option.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Anarchy, because have you met people? Those fuckers can't be trusted with power

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 hours ago

Can't stand the no freedom of speech, but I understand they can't have it because that would become a CIA backdoor to overthrow their leadership and also winnie the ping has let state capitalist run rampant. Ringing the lifeforce out of the populace in a way that would make Jeff Bezos proud, and erect. But you can't deny that, for an expansionnist fashistic budding empire, they do have their shit together and trains running on time and so on.

I'm starting to think the usa military won't be able to kill them all in a day and then starve everyone by sinking all their food and oil ships.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That backfired real good, didn't it?

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Turns out we know we're all being spyed on constantly and don't really care what authoritarian shithole (US or China) is creeping on us

We care more about the content of the app.

[–] HoMaster@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t believe it.

[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You should, my wife is one of these folks and she's having a very eye opening time.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

About what? Didn't expect everything to be in Chinese?

[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Surprised by how much is in English, but also surprised that China isn't the hellscape that we've been fed through the media. It's middle class people in both countries talking about real things in a completely new way.

One thing that surprised her, everything in China isn't just cheap crap. It's american companies that cut corners by ordering crap and shilling it to us and then blaming China for it being cheap. China makes quality products, but the US will never see them, and so we live with the perception that everything from China is crap, but only what we don't tariff to death makes it through. It's cool to see her perceptions of the world change.

I'm not some tankie, and I don't give a shit about tik tok, but there's a massive cultural exchange happening that's too huge to filter off the rip, and I feel like folks are realizing there's a lot more that unites us than divides us. Our billionaires don't like their billionaires and so we beef? Nah, not my fight

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Americans figuring out that Chinese people are also just people like them is the most hilarious and american thing I read in a while.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

I agree, but as an American it also doesn’t surprise me at all. Dehumanizing others is one of the top tactics to make awful conservative policies more palatable.

[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Considering the distance between LA and NY is roughly the same as Turkiye and Portugal, we do tend to get a little single-minded in the experiences of others. But learning more about the world is never a bad thing. America is cooked

[–] obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Not really surprised. Most Tik Tok users are braindead.

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