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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power"

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

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you able to make another account? A voip number maybe?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can change the app settings to English now if you update it. Should help

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I imagine the bastards on 4chan are already figuring something out

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

There is already a federated option for this brain rod thingy