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i've never seen so many americans excited about china and the chinese language. good stuff, folks

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

Whole lotta folks are gonna find out they have more in common with the FOREIGN ADVERSARY™'s citizens than with their own government

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As the redditors pissed about this love to cite... It's the Streisand Effect.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Redditors are pissed about this? Oh god I need to see this, I need to taste their tears.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be so fucking funny if this backfired so spectacularly that it resulted in the total collapse of the "China bad" narrative in the US.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago

It would be nice. More probably, it also gets banned before that happens.

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago

One of the first things I was served upon opening the app was a Frieran meme. China really pointed at me and said "weeb".

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

If even .01% of the Americans joking about learning Chinese actually dip a toe into the language, culture, and (god forbid) history… mega self own from the us state

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I finally started getting my verification codes. Like, hours later. It's an improvement.

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

i can't help because the verification doesn't wori for me, but it's really cool to see

[–] Firstnamebunchofnumbers@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Oh i bet the chinese users are stoooookkkeeddd about a bunch of yanks polluting their space

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I love how comments there can have pictures in them, unlike TikTok. Someone posts dog and they get a dog tax paid stamp in reply

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

The dog/cat tax paid stamp is killing me

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

TikTok has been experimenting with that feature lately, only a few people have it right now for testing but you’ll see them sometimes

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

some are showing concern but from what i see it's a lot of excitement and curiosity. many americans are shockingly being polite and using AI to provide translations (possibly the only good thing AI is for)

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

They don't care, and I'm have a feeling that the app will not put up with nonsense from foreigners. This is not a Meta subsidiary, don't forget.

As an example (as others have mentioned on here) that your country (or province, if inside the PRC) is shown on your profile cause of all the trolling from the Taiwanese.

If they need to ban Americans I'm sure they would, but why do that when you can just moderate them? At least give it a try...

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mark my words, if the Supreme Court finds out about this, they're overturning the Tiktok ban immediately.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

I've posted the top one before myself but this rings a bit not entirely true as in the whole story.

They're not a Chinese propaganda op and may have US spies but undeniably they had waaaay less censorship of Palestine, Gaza, the genocide, anti-zionism than all of Zuckerworld. Same I hear with Luigi stuff. So they might be gathering data but they're not controlling it as tightly as Zuck-world controls theirs or most western social media.

More importantly I think it's about destroying competition. The US took out Japan, a capitalist vassal with the Plaza accords, they work like the mafia and it's unacceptable to have something they don't fully own and control existing and being successful.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded the app but the UI is in Chinese

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

to change it to english to have to click the bottom left option on the home page, then click on the gear which takes you to settings, then the other gear, then the top option and then you can select english

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Is there a trick to creating an account? I get errors whichever means of verification I try.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Servers are slammed. It might be a bit

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Found something a bit weird, on profiles it looks like it shows users’ “IP Address”? But also that’s not long enough to be an IP address, and it’s not even made up of numbers? Can someone who knows Chinese clarify what this is?

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

All major social media platforms in China were ordered by law to reveal IP location (just the cities) of their users since April 2022 because a lot of anti-Russia comments were made by Taiwanese trolls when the war in Ukraine started.

Most Chinese people are Russia simps and the social media fights got really ugly flamed by trolls, so they decided to just reveal the IP location of the users instead.

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[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

It says Beijing. Probably just the geolocation of the IP address.

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