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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Man, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts must be really shit if the TikTokers didn't even consider them for a second lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

IG reels are utter garbage for the most part but Youtube Short would actually be good if Youtube had the balls to separate it from Youtube itself as it's always limited in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

YouTube Shorts are the absolute evil

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

If you carefully cultivate your subscriptions and watching habits it's not bad. I get mostly stuff I'm subscribed to, a movie cut into thirty second chunks (right now it's Braveheart), tv clips with one of three pieces of music overlaid, a mix of benign recommendations that are mostly meh but sometimes funny, and thirst traps. So... it's not good but I do sometimea see something worth following.

It used to be worse, I think abandoning guntubers was the right call. I used to have Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson pushed at me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

They were just reposted tiktoks, make it make sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Instagram has a shit algorithm, yt shorts are generally just worse forms of yt or reposts from ticktok/insta. People are willing to tolerate a lot of data selling already, so why should they care that it's being shared with the CCP?