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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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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Dumbest shit ever. let me run to the PRC for my entertainment. Like was TikTok really that good? I never used it, other than the time long ago when it was first getting traction and my coworker asked me to get into her 12 yr old daughter's account (super easy BTW) and see what she was doing on there. surprise! nothing but 30 year old men following her and watching her doing dances. I never touched it since.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

nothing but 30 year old men following her and watching her doing dances.

This App is truly a swamp of shit.

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 18 points 6 days ago (13 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 21 points 6 days ago (4 children)

"Nobody I want to follow is using it."

By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won't go where there aren't already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (7 children)

It's really cool. The people are super nice and welcoming. The cities are incredible. Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours. Life is affordable there.

They just got it better. The cold war propaganda we've been spoonfed from birth was all lies.

We are the bad place.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours.

Crazy how effective this propaganda is. Median Chinese salary is 5 USD/hour. Now 5x every chinese price you see to get really cost and revisit your comment.

[–] Pili@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

China is a gigantic country, larger than the USA, that was still aggrarian just 50 years ago. They are still developing and there is a large disparity in earning between the developed coastal areas in the east, and the undeveloped west. The prices you see on the app a from the coastal areas where salaries are similar to western Europe.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

No it's not and it's incredibly easy to verify so I don't understand why would you just lie. US salaries are incredibly high so very few countries can actually compare and coast China definitely doesn't.

I can speak from experience in tech sector how incredibly tiny Shenzen salaries are even today compared to everything else as I get recruitment offers almost every week. 60k/year is basically peak salary you can get as a senior software dev compared to 100-300k in US.

Here one source says avg annual income in Shenzen is 24,000 USD vs for example Denver of 94,157 USD — 4 times higher and that's Denver not San Francisco which would be the mirror of Shenzen.

I'm not an american or chinese but I know how to read data and it's pretty fucking clear here.

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[–] schizoidman@lemm.ee 18 points 6 days ago
[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

People really are that dumb. We really deserve everything we have.

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