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  • One of my favorite things about western exposure to Chinese social media is the realization that Chinese netizens aren't smarmy liberals yearning for American flags and apple pie. No they're by and large "tankies" just like us. If anything they're even more likely than us to ridicule and demean western nonsense than we are.

    From my limited experience Chinese posters are more powerful than we can ever conceive and I'm all for it

    • The importance of this moment cannot be overstated. For the first time, millions of ordinary American workers are engaging directly with their Chinese comrades, uncovering the lies fed to them by their ruling class. This awakening is a blow to the imperialist propaganda machine and a step toward proletarian solidarity across borders.

      • It isn't quite yet in the millions:

        Within the span of two days, more than 700,000 new users have joined Xiaohongshu, Reuters reported, citing a person close to the company. CNN has reached out to Xiaohongshu for comment.

        https://hexbear.net/comment/5821835

        Allowing for a day since the article was published and for Americans already set up on the platform, it's probably around a mil.

    • You can't draw any generalized conclusions about Chinese posters from what you anecdotally see on a social media app. The platforms are developed to curate your personal feed so it's not surprising a tankie will see primarily tankie posts just as it wouldn't be surprising if a lib got the impression that the same app was entirely filled with Chinese libs yearning for apple pie.

      • The platforms are developed to curate your personal feed

        The thing is: Douyin and Tiktok were intentionally seperated for their domestic and foreign counterparts, in their own jurisdictions.

        However, xiaohongshu, as the article points out, is fully in China's hands of jurisdiction and regulations, so unless they make seperate version for foreigners, OOF, they're not getting a lot of

        Chinese libs yearning for apple pie {if by that, you mean the West, for what it reps.}.

      • I'm not on any Chinese social media so I don't have any personal feeds that are generalized. I'm more going off memes and videos off bilibili where there will be long explanations of Marxism with a ton of people in the comments

        I run on vibes

  • Staying firmly within the existing boundaries of acceptable thought? 🧐

    Redrawing the boundaries of acceptable thought? 😱

  • This just sounds like the sort of moderation I'd expect out of most websites I've frequented in the past 20 years. I don't like using platforms that trend towards 4chan as time goes on. (Hence why I mostly stick around small, easy to moderate IRC channels and discord servers)

  • algorithms that de-emphasize expression incompatible with secretive, elite capitalist-approved narratives are good and totally benign compared to algorithms that that de-emphasize expression contrary to democratically-controlled socialist narratives, which are scary and bad.

    I am a technologist futurist and my brain is quite powerful. thank you for sponsoring my ted talk, NaziEugenicsCo!

  • I find it hilarious that the comment replies on this forbes.com article, are way farther left and more aware of the US's hypocrisies than the average liberal lemmy server commenters.

    The article was also just the standard orientalist "our open transparent freedom-loving democracy" vs "their authoritarian 1984 surveillance regime", with an emphasis on "protecting our youths from the evil commies". Not a shred of self reflection after the US just committed the thing they're accusing China of doing.

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