cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5333101

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 months ago

    lmao bro wtf, just ban the site permanently like come on it's literally a public safety issue

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    They should throttle traffic to it permanently and allow for a domestic alternative to appear.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      For that to really succeed I think you'd need the size and planning of China.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        Why? There's no need for it to be international. Twitter for Venezuelans run by a Venezuelan company would be fine.

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          3 months ago

          A) because Venezuela didn't start this before the Bad Apps got entrenched, and B) because Venezuela has about the same population as just Shanghai alone.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 months ago

            I'm not following why either of these things prevent it. The entire point of throttling the service is so that it degrades it so much that people migrate to your alternative. This is precisely what Russia is doing to replace youtube with a domestically operated version. Yes Russia is much larger but this doesn't change much, smaller country will have smaller running costs to run the service.

            • buckykat [none/use name]
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              3 months ago

              The timing because all these blocks can be trivially VPN'd around by anyone who cares to, even China's. But most Chinese people don't bother because by the time the bad apps took over the world China already had its alternatives up and running. And the size because social media, especially the mega world eating social media like Twitter and the Facebook properties like Whatsapp, are all about the network effect. All the reasons nobody gives a shit about Bluesky or Mastodon would go tenfold, a hundredfold, as much for a Venezuela-only Twitter competitor.

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    3 months ago

    Is Weibo PRC-emblem only?

    It'd be dope if they end up making a Spanish language version with a userbase all over South/Central America and the Caribbean and billionaire-tears gets so mad he actually fights maduro-salute and Maduro kills him in the ring like he's Ivan Drago

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      You can browse Weibo from anywhere. I’m not certain about making accounts though, some of the Chinese sites I use require mainland China phone numbers, so I never even tried with Weibo.