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    That’s so out of the blue? Is there any particular reason why the app got viral in the US?

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      No idea what made it go viral. That said, I just signed up and I’m digging it, this was literally the first thing in my feed

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        This is the first thing I see opening the app

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            It remains to be seen for how long. Libs will be freaking out when they find an intersection of Chinese users on political posts like the Ukraine-Russia war in the host app they’re going to as ‘refugees.’ Their bubble will be burst badly when people disagree with them. Also, I followed the ‘reading’ interest, and there’s a lot of Mao and the Red Book there. Americans will freak out over “genocider” worship in a Chinese TikTok alternative. This app will probably separate global servers from China servers to avoid that, like TikTok, if it wants to replace TikTok

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              I suspect that libs aren’t gonna touch the app with a ten foot pole, but there are a lot of people in US who are becoming radicalized out of liberal mainstream. Even if the US bans the app eventually, millions of Americans will now be talking directly to people living in China. The more people talk to each other the harder it will be for the US to dehumanize or stereotype China going forward.

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        Damn, I was browsing Hexbear and I’m tempted to install the app now. I’m kinda expecting for it to be a huge time sink considering how much I use Lemmy and Telegram on my phone lmao

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      It’s because a lot of high profile tiktok “content creators” are going there and taking their fan base with them.

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      TikTok is getting banned in the US so a bunch of users are going to Xiaohongshu instead. It’s basically to spite the American government.