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.
  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s really cool. The people are super nice and welcoming. The cities are incredible. Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours. Life is affordable there.

    They just got it better. The cold war propaganda we’ve been spoonfed from birth was all lies.

    We are the bad place.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours.

      Crazy how effective this propaganda is. Median Chinese salary is 5 USD/hour. Now 5x every chinese price you see to get really cost and revisit your comment.

      • Pili@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        China is a gigantic country, larger than the USA, that was still aggrarian just 50 years ago. They are still developing and there is a large disparity in earning between the developed coastal areas in the east, and the undeveloped west. The prices you see on the app a from the coastal areas where salaries are similar to western Europe.

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      3 days ago

      Friends of mine lived a year or so in China. It was very harsh and the people were not very welcoming. That’s not strange as people tend to be like that towards strangers immigrating. But it’s no utopia you can fit into easily.

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, sure. Just because one team is bad doesn’t mean the other is good. There is a lot of poverty, exploitation and general shit happening “there”.