The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.

It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, there’s a real issue.

Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.

Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?

I would.

The US government's solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Those hypotheticals are all well and good.

But you have to understand the scale of things and the history of things. Just as the US military-industrial complex dwarfs those of all other states, so does the US propaganda-intelligence complex. The Russiagate narrative itself was a psyop to manufacture our consent to censorship.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago

If you think social networks are meant to socialize and not getting in a real conflict, you end up with a kind of twist

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought it would be like tiktok but it's surprisingly different, it's pretty fun

[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems to prefer new users' posts rather than already popular users interestingly enough, at least more so than other platforms

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, and it uses your IP to also find content to show, it suprises me how much Chinese people enjoy content about my country

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power"

China bad because checks notes of something we intentionally did to ourselves.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i envy the americans interacting w all the rednote people; i straight up starting following all of the same people i followed on tiktok and recreated tt for myself bt accident.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you able to make another account? A voip number maybe?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i think that i just need to reach out beyond my bubble and it'll be tough due to all the mandarin all over the app.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can change the app settings to English now if you update it. Should help

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

already turn it on; but it's not enough, but i'll learn mandarin eventually... assuming that my government doesn't ban rednote before then. lol

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

How long it will take for someone (not from China) to ruin it for everyone?

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I imagine the bastards on 4chan are already figuring something out

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yup

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

There is already a federated option for this brain rod thingy