the tiktok exodus is widely known! for those of you who don't know, i am in high school. i can't count with my hands how many people have talked about it, and that's just in the two classes i had yesterday (exam week, yay). i've already gotten 2 people to download it. they both made accounts and use it now! it's broken the niche internet thing into the real world, at the very least for young people.

on the app front, lots of americans are posting things like "we've been lied to, china isn't that bad!" i've come across so many americans learning about chinese culture and responding positively to patriotic or socialist posts from chinese netizens. it's insane, i'm really amazed at how, for at least a good chunk of americans, china is becoming less demonized.

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I watched a video where a guy detailed all his living expenses in his brand new high rise 2 bedroom apartment. I believe this user had been in the USA for some time before moving back to China

The apartment itself? $70k, furnished and decorated. $70k cant even buy you a mobile home in the USA anymorw.

All other utilities were ridiculously cheap in USD - gigabit internet, water, sewer, and electricity combined were like $50 monthly. The HOA fee was $25 monthly.

Ive also watched so many cooking videos and their food, especially meat just looks so much better quality. It just shows how fucked up our food supply chains (especially chicken) have become.

But i think my favorite thing has been how pleasant the feed is overall, i dont feel like everything is assaulting my dopamine centers to fight for attention. When i go back to my tiktok feed, i get whiplash with how its over 50% advertisments of one form or another. XHS, the only advertising i have seen is people trying to sell english textbooks

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

...i dont feel like everything is assaulting my dopamine centers to fight for attention...

One video on xhs (giving an overview for the new audience) said that the algorithm isn't centered around the "rich get richer" effect and tries to give a much more even distribution, which I imagine dilutes all the "dopamine assault" content developed to game tik-tok (profit motive) type algorithms (and other addictive qualities) plus probably makes it more useful as a search engine.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that makes sense. Ill get a lot of accounts just with normal hobbies or cooking that get like 5k-10k likes. Just a dude and his garden or a candy maker, shit like that. Im honestly planning to spend a bit tomorrow scrolling it since i usually am hitting tiktok multiple times a day. Fuck reels

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

$70k cant even buy you a mobile home in the USA anymorw.

I'll have you know my mobile home cost $20k 😎

I also live in the middle of fucking nowhere 😞

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah i guess im used to listings in a HCOL area, but also neither includes lot fees that are also increasing nationwide by the private equity ghouls that are purchasing all the parks.