this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
98 points (86.6% liked)

Technology

60456 readers
4098 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
98
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
submitted 7 hours ago by 000@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
87 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 45 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I saw people in some Chinese source saying XiaoHongShu is updating the algorithm to segregate Chinese users and foreign users (image 1) and hiring English Post Inspectors (image 2) to moderate English contents due to China’s policy

Image 1:

Image 2:

It’s kind of like why there are Weixin and WeChat, Douyin and TikTok, Taobao and AliExpress, Pinduoduo and Temu

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

When I saw the headline, this was my first thought.

But damn, it could have been something cool if reality wasn't so fucking predictable and ugly.

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

Well, that world, because it sure as hell isn't the one we're in

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

The Chinese government was never going to let that happen. It threatens their control of their people.

[–] Deway@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The two Spidermen meme :

"You're being lied to!"

"We are?!"

"We thought it was only you guys!"

And then revolution all around the world, utopia, happiness forever.

[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 42 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

The answer is Fediverse. From last time I checked while I am in Mainland China, lemmy.world is not banned (yet lemmy.ml is banned lol)

I am also able to use my own Mastodon instance in Mainland China.

Fediverse is the key and tool to break the Great Firewall.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago

Until they turn their gaze to it. I’m sure it’s trivial to block and monitor due to the federated/networked nature.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 hours ago

Let's hope it stays that way :)

We don't get to actually interact much with chinese people in China, here in the states. The more all us regular people can get to know each other, the more chance we have of maybe breaking down the artificial barriers that keep us locked into our own worlds

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

There's a lot of users expressing as much:

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

[Winds of Change by Scorpions playing loudly]

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Man, that's beautiful :)

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

The liberation of humanity comment is worrying

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen chinese rednote users comparing chinese forums to 4chan and linking another source where the devs said they were working to add translation and other features to help integrate the new userbase.

[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

This sounds weird… forum culture is mostly dead in China