What I find crazy is the number of “leftists” screaming about this being a bad thing because they “don’t want Americans on their app.” This is less an issue here but I’ve seen it on less moderated forums.

I have to feel suspect of a lot of these people because if you are true leftist you would realize how good this can be towards shifting the American views of China to the positive. Like the number of U.S. users moving there is a drop on the bucket to how many Chinese are already there. Are they really so fearful they will be overrun? Or are they bad faith actors trying to make leftist think this is a bad thing and to attack the newcomers to prevent them from learning anything outside the western sphere?

Sure, some people might be genuine and be disgruntled by the influx of US users, but they should understand that this is an amazing opportunity to really start to radicalize these new users and really open their eyes. If after that they are still against them maybe they need to do a self evaluation and decide if they really care about building communism.

So if you see posts saying these migrations of western users to Chinese apps is bad, call that shit out. It may be a mild inconvenience at first, but the potential to grow a real understanding in the west to the truth about China and the rest of the world is massive.

So in an attempt to thwart imagined Chinese propaganda, USians have pushed their user base into actual Chinese platforms. If even a portion of those users come to the realization that China are not evil harry potter villains, it would be a net win.

I would say it is one of the US’s bigger own-goals, but they have had so many.

America is so free its people are leaving this freedom for “eVil Gommunism”

• Xiaohongshu
• Red Note
• Lemon8

Don’t mind me, just writing a list of apps that are gonna get firewalled by the US because of national security in about 2 years.