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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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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] SpikedPunchVictim@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

This might have an interesting side effect. Western voices and opinions being shared enmasse with Chinese youths on platforms they're comfortable with. It will be interesting to see how the Chinese government responds to this

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

I hope that west taiwanese citizens will realize just how bad their government is.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 0 points 17 minutes ago

...by seeing how shit is lives are in comparison?

I don't think you understand how many centuries behind China the US is.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

The hexies are so excited about this too. They've got a thread up (erroneously) hoping that Americans will now stop believing that Chinese people are bad, because they can't face the truth that Americans (who aren't magats) only think the Chinese government is an authoritarian shit show and have no problem with regular Chinese citizens.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 hour ago

Solidarity amongst the working class, no matter what imaginary made up boundaries divide us.

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 3 points 47 minutes ago

Xenophobia and racism exist in America outside of the trump ultras. Hell, outside of the republican party even

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 30 minutes ago

Thank you for vigorously following Hexbear to spread misinformation about it on .world. Defederating really helped clean up the narrative.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 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.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, sure. Just because one team is bad doesn't mean the other is good. There is a lot of poverty, exploitation and general shit happening "there".

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 2 points 15 minutes ago

They've eliminated extreme poverty and are on track to eliminate poverty. Given even the poorest citizens don't worry about rent or medical bills or food costs, their poverty looks incredibly different to that in the US.

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