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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      18 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

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      22 hours ago

      Literally no difference between that and Lemmy.

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

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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        20 hours ago

        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

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          20 hours ago

          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.

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            17 hours ago

            yeah that is definitely part of the appeal!

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