The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
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      39 minutes ago

      I’m not the commenter you replied to but I read their view more along these lines. That no large online video provider gives a good experience and while this is more competition for YouTube it’s kind of like comparing two piles of shit - both stink.

      Which idk never used it but yeah China has its own brand of suck compared with the West. Still, I agree it’d be good to have more cultural exchange - that’s the sort of thing that over time leads to better relations between nation states and decreases the likelihood of war.

      You know the older I get, the lesson of “there are no good guys” really keeps getting hammered home. This is just a reminder of that.

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        11 minutes ago

        These reactions just seem a little overwrought to me. I’m sure everyone commenting watches plenty of YouTube, but the mere mention of a Chinese platform brings dire warnings and energetic condemnations. Like maybe it does suck, but most people here wouldn’t really know! That’s my point-- that it’s crazy to have such strong opinions about something that you have no experience with.