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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good for them. People should be free to live their lives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tick tock is cancer though, yt shorts as well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

I don't like it either, but these fuckers clearly do, so at least they're doing it in a way that isn't basically a bunch of governments spoon feeding what they want Americans to think to them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Literally no difference between that and Lemmy.

It's all social media and all has the same effect on us

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can't really infinite scroll on Lemmy for hours watching content specific to your tastes.

You might get five minutes per day of mildly interesting content on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy kind of sucks, that's why I like it. Reddit to me was like beer and Lemmy is like non alcoholic beer. If stop drinking a non alcoholic beer is fine, but I don't really need one every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

yeah that is definitely part of the appeal!

another part is that the self selected crowd is a bit... cooler