I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

The answer is Fediverse. From last time I checked while I am in Mainland China, lemmy.world is not banned (yet lemmy.ml is banned lol)

I am also able to use my own Mastodon instance in Mainland China.

Fediverse is the key and tool to break the Great Firewall.

I saw people in some Chinese source saying XiaoHongShu is updating the algorithm to segregate Chinese users and foreign users (image 1) and hiring English Post Inspectors (image 2) to moderate English contents due to China’s policy

Image 1:

Image 2:

It’s kind of like why there are Weixin and WeChat, Douyin and TikTok, Taobao and AliExpress, Pinduoduo and Temu

离了个特朗普 means “as outrageous/unusual as Trump”

离谱 means “outrageous/unusual”

了个 is exaggerating the tone

特朗普 (trump) is a wordplay here as the 普/谱 is in same sound and only a Chinese radical off

Sauce: me

Edit: damnit, I made a typo at 离普, should be 离谱

The emotional part of me yells “shut up and take my money”, but the rational part of me tells me that it will be another useless piece of junk on my shelf

Business people see the word AI mentioned in the products: invest invest invest! Business people see AI products hit with honest tech reviews: thoSe PEAsants aRE RUIning ThE InnOVATIOn

A push for ~~security~~ revenue

Me, using Piped: what?

Now here is the fun part: they do not have a API documentation; they only have a very generic guide on how to setup webhook API