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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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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 97 points 2 months ago

If even .01% of the Americans joking about learning Chinese actually dip a toe into the language, culture, and (god forbid) history… mega self own from the us state

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As the redditors pissed about this love to cite... It's the Streisand Effect.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago

Redditors are pissed about this? Oh god I need to see this, I need to taste their tears.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I finally started getting my verification codes. Like, hours later. It's an improvement.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe the servers will recover and it'll work again

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Still haven't gotten any

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

Whole lotta folks are gonna find out they have more in common with the FOREIGN ADVERSARY™'s citizens than with their own government

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most Americans will just go to instagram/facebook/twitter unfortunately

The great Satan won this round I’m afraid. Still though, I’m really curious to see some metrics (if those are even available anywhere)

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 79 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One very funny statistic for now

[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is Lemon8 the app for organizing lemon parties

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 57 points 2 months ago

like another commentor said, any amount of americans being exposed to chinese culture is a positive.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I have a Chinese buddy who studied in America and now lives in Hong Kong. He tried to teach me how to pronounce stuff in Mandarin and oh my god its so hard.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (9 children)

"how hard can it be if babies do it" is usually my mantra when I try learning languages

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.

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[–] Firstnamebunchofnumbers@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Oh i bet the chinese users are stoooookkkeeddd about a bunch of yanks polluting their space

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's the internet, if regular people from different groups, especially Americans and Chinese, the former of whom's government and media has been fomenting a cold war and racist propaganda for decades, can get together and have regular interactions I see that as an absolute win.

Luxemburg emphasized: “There can be no socialism outside the international solidarity of the proletariat.”

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love how comments there can have pictures in them, unlike TikTok. Someone posts dog and they get a dog tax paid stamp in reply

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[–] spectre@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

They don't care, and I'm have a feeling that the app will not put up with nonsense from foreigners. This is not a Meta subsidiary, don't forget.

As an example (as others have mentioned on here) that your country (or province, if inside the PRC) is shown on your profile cause of all the trolling from the Taiwanese.

If they need to ban Americans I'm sure they would, but why do that when you can just moderate them? At least give it a try...

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

All major social media platforms in China were ordered by law to reveal IP location (just the cities) of their users since April 2022 because a lot of anti-Russia comments were made by Taiwanese trolls when the war in Ukraine started.

Most Chinese people are Russia simps and the social media fights got really ugly flamed by trolls, so they decided to just reveal the IP location of the users instead.

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[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It says Beijing. Probably just the geolocation of the IP address.

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

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

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

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

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago

One of the first things I was served upon opening the app was a Frieran meme. China really pointed at me and said "weeb".

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Servers are slammed. It might be a bit

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[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 months ago

I just tried every hour or so and eventually got one

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mark my words, if the Supreme Court finds out about this, they're overturning the Tiktok ban immediately.

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[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be so fucking funny if this backfired so spectacularly that it resulted in the total collapse of the "China bad" narrative in the US.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Florn@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TinkTonk banned, users decided to use Chinese insta instead

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lmao based.

It would be very funny if the US had to ban RedNote too

[–] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

In two years when the law catches up, by then it will be too late. 🤞

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

If this law is upheld and TikTok is banned, they can use it to ban Xiǎohóngshū. But that’ll take years, it’s not like it happens automatically.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

us is banning tiktok so people are migrating to 小红书 which is a chinese social media. chinese and american netizens are interacting so much, it's incredible

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded the app but the UI is in Chinese

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

to change it to english to have to click the bottom left option on the home page, then click on the gear which takes you to settings, then the other gear, then the top option and then you can select english

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Cool to see!

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