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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 children)

You do it by exploiting the billions outside your borders from countries even more poor like mine where they sell their garbage low quality products that cant be repaired or recycled, from shitty earphones to bikes that start breaking down in a year, taking advantage of poor people who cant afford to buy anything of better quality. China isnt better than us when it comes to exploitation and inequality.

[–] surph_ninja 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Hold up. You think the Chinese are the ones deciding to manufacture low quality products, and not the capitalists who are ordering them that way?

They are spreading their wealth to those in need. Not exploiting. They value mutually beneficial relationships.

https://x.com/Hammonda1/status/1787061224062013553?mx=2

[–] PlantDadManGuy 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think the Chinese businessmen are exploiting slave laborers to produce cheap goods and export them to most of the world. Would you call that a mutually beneficial relationship?

[–] surph_ninja 3 points 21 hours ago

I wouldn’t. Source?

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