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Bluesky boom worries Chinese media (www.semafor.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 weeks ago

Good.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

Wait did I miss something? I thought TikTok was the chinese version of TikTok?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Douyin is the localised version of Tiktok. So, the content is totally different. similar to Steam China and Steam International.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ooooh. That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It used to be much less brainrot and doomscroll filled on their version. When people from the west noticed that they started calling tiktok a form of psychological warfare. I think its almost as bad there now but ofcourse still much more censored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Fun fact back in the days the same was said about Tetris (though tongue in cheek).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago

TikTok is banned in China

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This has me smiling way harder than it probably should 😆

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Musk: "Guess I'll buy them in two years and we'll do it all over again."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The company: Rejects the offer and does not want to be acquired

Musk: Tries to sue Bluesky for "stolen patents"

The lawsuit fails

Musk tries to create a version of Bluesky using the source code provided by the same company

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He will call it "Greenland" and assert that it makes him eligible to buy the country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Denmark cuts ties with the united states

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Presumably until Bluesky IPOs there's nothing he can do to buy it, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

IPO is public sale on the stock msrket. Private sales are always available.

Bluesky is not truly federated, but is designed for large orgs to be able to host different parts of it. Twitter could start offering its own implementation if they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

China compains that newly purchased bot farm ran out of humans to milk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

The cap is immaculate