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i've never seen so many americans excited about china and the chinese language. good stuff, folks

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

Found something a bit weird, on profiles it looks like it shows users’ “IP Address”? But also that’s not long enough to be an IP address, and it’s not even made up of numbers? Can someone who knows Chinese clarify what this is?

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

that says "Beijing" so I'm assuming it's saying the IP is from beijing.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

I downloaded the app but the UI is in Chinese

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[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

i can't help because the verification doesn't wori for me, but it's really cool to see

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

I tried to make an account months ago to practice Chinese, but it didn't work because of the verification texts. Let me know if someone has strats to make it more likely to go thru.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

I just tried every hour or so and eventually got one

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It came through instantly for me, maybe because I've done it when yanks were eepy

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Is there a trick to creating an account? I get errors whichever means of verification I try.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Servers are slammed. It might be a bit

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

i used wechat personally

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

ironically enough, i used google account to do first time login

i might have to clear that and use normal methods if i'm gonna shitpost though, real name on account is a bit of an oof

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

i just used my work wechat account

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago
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[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Too early to tell long term impacts, but as it stands this is probably the largest Chinese -> American cultural exchange like, ever. This number of Americans have literally never been this exposed to Chinese media or just Chinese people.

Half of Americans use TikTok. If 5% of them join LittleRedBook it’s over 8 million people. And I would expect it’s well over 5%.

God reading that back what a stupid fucking plan this ban was. Oh yeah no problem we’ll ban the platform that half of the country uses, arguably the dominant force of culture in this country, surely no one will be upset and there’ll be no significant consequences, they’ll totally understand and go right back to the loving arms of the Zuck.

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Cool to see!

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Are there some stats on it?

[-] mbt2402@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

yapdollar reference

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