• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    “in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power”

    China bad because checks notes of something we intentionally did to ourselves.

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    I thought it would be like tiktok but it’s surprisingly different, it’s pretty fun

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      It seems to prefer new users’ posts rather than already popular users interestingly enough, at least more so than other platforms

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        Yes, and it uses your IP to also find content to show, it suprises me how much Chinese people enjoy content about my country

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    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.

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      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.

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    22 hours ago

    How long it will take for someone (not from China) to ruin it for everyone?

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    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.

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        i think that i just need to reach out beyond my bubble and it’ll be tough due to all the mandarin all over the app.

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            already turn it on; but it’s not enough, but i’ll learn mandarin eventually… assuming that my government doesn’t ban rednote before then. lol