the tiktok exodus is widely known! for those of you who don’t know, i am in high school. i can’t count with my hands how many people have talked about it, and that’s just in the two classes i had yesterday (exam week, yay). i’ve already gotten 2 people to download it. they both made accounts and use it now! it’s broken the niche internet thing into the real world, at the very least for young people.

on the app front, lots of americans are posting things like “we’ve been lied to, china isn’t that bad!” i’ve come across so many americans learning about chinese culture and responding positively to patriotic or socialist posts from chinese netizens. it’s insane, i’m really amazed at how, for at least a good chunk of americans, china is becoming less demonized.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    13 hours ago

    you have to be careful not to espouse these views publicly within the united states because it will trigger someone

    As someone who runs a bunch of communities I have run into trouble with americans when I haven’t been rabidly anti-china. It’s caused mass exoduses from the community more than once.

    The European users have never behaved that way in regards to China, only the Americans.

    I even received a winnie the pooh death threat one time.

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      12 hours ago

      The European users have never behaved that way in regards to China, only the Americans.

      except for Polish anarkids

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah fair enough. My discords don’t really get many of those because there’s things like rainbow flags. They self-filter themselves out early.

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          11 hours ago

          In Poland anarkids are often pro-LGBT or even queer, so it doesn’t help much. And I’ve found plenty of them on the fediverse