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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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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (13 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Nobody I want to follow is using it."

By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won't go where there aren't already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.

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[–] schizoidman@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago
[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

People really are that dumb. We really deserve everything we have.

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