TikTok users migrate to RedNote in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power
China has historically been seen as unable to emulate the attractiveness of the world’s more established soft-power bastions.
And the US passed a bill in 2024 dedicating US$1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) to “countering Chinese propaganda” over the next five years.
The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.
It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.
I mean, there’s a real issue.
Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.
Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?
I would.
The US government's solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.
Those hypotheticals are all well and good.
But you have to understand the scale of things and the history of things. Just as the US military-industrial complex dwarfs those of all other states, so does the US propaganda-intelligence complex. The Russiagate narrative itself was a psyop to manufacture our consent to censorship.
If you think social networks are meant to socialize and not getting in a real conflict, you end up with a kind of twist
I thought it would be like tiktok but it's surprisingly different, it's pretty fun
It seems to prefer new users' posts rather than already popular users interestingly enough, at least more so than other platforms
Yes, and it uses your IP to also find content to show, it suprises me how much Chinese people enjoy content about my country
China continues its strategy of just sitting back and letting the US fuck up.
"in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power"
China bad because checks notes of something we intentionally did to ourselves.
i envy the americans interacting w all the rednote people; i straight up starting following all of the same people i followed on tiktok and recreated tt for myself bt accident.
How long it will take for someone (not from China) to ruin it for everyone?
I imagine the bastards on 4chan are already figuring something out
There is already a federated option for this brain rod thingy
