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.
  • gubblebumbum@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    China is a capitalist shithole but for some reason its biggest defenders are always self proclaimed western communists.

    edit: we also have a few militant communists groups that like to blow up chinese nationals working for their govt every now and then.

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      What exactly do you think “capitalist” means? Because it sounds like you think any participation in markets is capitalism.