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the tiktok exodus is actually huge (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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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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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (15 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?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How well would this even work given how many Chinese people use VPNs

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I don’t think many people use VPN at all. You only need it to bypass the firewall to browse certain foreign websites. Only a small fraction of people does that.

    But it is true that it would not be very effective against determined trolls posting from, say, Taiwan, because they can simply use VPN servers located inside China. Without showing the IP location, people will just endlessly accuse one another for being Taiwanese trolls without any proof. Surprisingly the flame wars did tone down substantially after this was introduced.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oof, nah, I'll pass

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you’re located anywhere outside China it just says the country you’re in, not the city, and even for Chinese people it only shows the city they’re in if they’re located in a major one like Beijing or Shanghai (for a lot of people it just shows the province.) Idk to me it’s not a big deal if Xiaohongshu knows I’m in the Great Satan.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah, no, that's a lot better. Show me as a cracker, I'll give that part away myself anyway

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of the TikTok people are moving with the assumption that their privacy and data are cooked regardless of platform, and are choosing to spite America/us corps. Not the average hexbear poster

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago*

    I just assume that if I need to get a non-Christian abortion or not be racist, facebook already has an automated firehose for snitching my location and degree of thoughtcrime straight to the Schutzstaffel dispatch, merely waiting for President Musk to activate the autobot matrix of fascism, Chinese companies probably at least have a few hours delay due multilayered pipelines between shell corporations to bypass santactions.

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