Those will stay rumors. Thinking the CCP will wall off Americans shows a complete lack of understanding China. Since as the article noted, if you don’t follow the rules you’ll be banned, there’s no way the government will try to wall off anyone. Hell, China didn’t even want to ban Google. They asked Google to put in the rules that rednote has. Google refused, the firewall blocks Google until they abide by the rules. If Google ever just follows the rules like Microsoft, they’re more than welcome to come back. If there’s any segregation it will be because the server’s are overwhelmed.
*Edit. Btw that’s how bing and linkedin became huge in China until the Chinese found better Chinese alternatives. They never got banned, they got replaced.
Such a popcorn moment, honestly. I wonder where they’ll go to once Red Note blocks US Americans. They might be able to go back to tick tock if the US backpedals, but if not… is pixelfed or whatever fediverse alternative exists really ready to absorb 700M accounts?
Apparently the [?head ?CEO ?Mayor McCheese] of TikTok is attending the inauguration. Which means that they’ve already bribed Trump and the ban will be reversed pretty much immediately.
Isn’t it more like Loops.video than Pixelfed?
Honestly I expect VPN usage to go up
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The problem with China is really the government. Democracy is a concept that the CCP really doesn’t like.
To be fair, though: The US government isn’t really all that keen on democracy, either.
They have that newfangled word for it now. What was it? Olymarkie? Oldmalarkie? Oh, what was it…
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That sounds nice!
They actually prioritize socializing over just putting out random shit for views & engagement?
I’d love to talk to folks with different cultures and share stuff we find neat!
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Good. Why the fuck are you all so addicted to Chinese brain rot?
What is even happening
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That’s actually a really good idea. And LLMs are excellent at machine translation, it’s one of their underutilized killer apps. They’re a little better at going to English than from English or between two non-English languages, just because so much of the corpus is English, but they’re easily enough that it could be automated as a working solution.
You know the other night I got high and thought. “I wander what other countries learn in grade school. How their propaganda is different from ours” and now all this is going on.
It’s wild how we can connect with people from across the world but our world leaders try their hardest to make sure we don’t.
This article is horseshit. They wrote it from an unsubstantiated rumor on Reddit.
Meanwhile, China’s People’s Dispatch has praised the exchange, and Rednote has added a translation feature.
