I trust this as much as I trust big American tech platforms.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Considering how much damage Google et al do, I legitimately wonder whether China could even do worse, and I’m not even a tankie.
China makes palantir look like freedom respecting software.
Not terribly interested in this video platform as I also don’t use YouTube. I really hope Google gets broken up and I don’t like them harvesting my data and selling it to the US Government any more than I like companies like Bytedance selling my data to the Chinese Government. I am in the US and think we should have established data privacy and data protection laws long before things got to the point they have gotten too.
I don't know why but "Google et al" made me laugh
Sure, but I'd rather have my info safely offshore in China than to give it right to big brother. I also bet far far fewer ads and more fun commercials because you have no idea what they are about. They are currently destoyjng the natural order in printer ink. I support that wholeheartedly. My Epson inks are 90 and the knockoffs are 20 and work just as well. It's always temporarily beneficial when player 2 enters the market.
*Edit it does not like vpns. That's a no for me.
Ah yes, instead of US big brother you give it to offshore Big Brother.
Weird, the few times I've used it I had no problem with my VPN.
the same as Tik Tok?
I've avoided that platform so yes if I'm understanding you correctly.
Political censorship is definitely worse so I‘m not going to bother.
Because YouTube doesn't engage in anything like that ofc.
This is one thing I noticed using Chinese social media. There are almost zero discussions of local politics. Foreign politics is fine though
There is no politics in Ba Sing Se.
Depending on the politic
BRB, gonna upload something about Tianaamen Square.
They will just remove it
Thatsthejoke.info
I can't wait for this to be announced as a threat to national security after creating mild competition for YouTube.
Maybe things change in the future, but right now I see VHS tapes at local thrift shops as being bigger competition to houtube than this.
Gamers Nexus started to print their videos on DVDs and Blurays recently
Ye ‘ol Fail Army or whatever the fuck they call that stream of content now
Y'know, free market
Hey, I welcome any serious competition. Youtube has devolved into a much more censored platform than what we used to make fun of the Chinese for. "Unalive", "grape", and several topics that are demonetized on sight.
I found clip.place , a peertube instance really good alternative to YouTube. I am sure there are others.
Thing is peertube is still pretty much new and empty. I didn't find much content that I would be interested in or even an interesting community. Although I see its potential as a social platform I don't think it will ever replace YouTube (at least for me) as it wouldn't give creators the financial incentive to use it.
YouTube barely gives a financial incentive for most creators, that's why most of them take sponsorship deals and/or use Patreon.
Coming to a smear campaign near you!
As a gay Uyghur I wonder how this platform is going to work for me?
You will be invited with open arms, mr Cumfart. And then shot, of course. Can’t have any of those pesky gay ass Uyghurs turning our kids gay and Uyghur, now can we?
Ironically I searched for something unrelated and got bombarded with a bunch of BL dramas.
What's a BL drama?
Bacon lettuce
"boys' love" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_love
Basically gay dramas, supposedly targeted at women.
Boy love drama. The restrictions on homosexual content is overblown, though not entirely fabricated. XHS has plenty of LGBTQ content, for example, domestic and foreign. Not as much as Western social media, to be fair, but also I don't see people bullying LGBTQ people or creators on XHS.
There's more restrictions on overt sexuality, straight or gay. Make no mistake, Chinese culture is more conservative in some ways than the West, but it's not as restrictive as the news makes it out to be.
How many unskippable ads before I can watch a 3-minute video?
If it’s less than 2, I’m sold!
I just started a video and it didn't play an ad right away.
Its 1, but the video is 2 hours 39 minutes long. It's just "HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!" on repeat.
Seems like a natural next step. XHS works well as a social media app across countries and has opened up China to average US citizens and vice versa. I've had a lot of good genuine conversations with people, they've managed to cultivate a good culture on the app.
As YouTube continues to enshittify, maybe there's an opportunity for another app with an already large user base to take its crown.
Compared to YouTube, it just means creators can't pronounce a different set of words.
I already have to use subtitles on youtube because of the amount of indian content that's not even in hindi so doubting that the difference is huge.
Maybe if the American tech ceo's have some competition they will stop acting like they own everything.
Youtube doesn't want my business.
They keep blocking me.
What was YouTube expecting??? Answer: MONEY without having to WORK for it.
I think I get your point, but if your business isn't contributing money to youtube, you're not really business. You're not contributing anything of value to Google if you don't bring money to the tabel, and why would they give half a shit about you then? I'm not saying it's right, but that's capitalism for you.
I bring consumer data.
Data YouTube can SELL to Madison Avenue.
You know, what they have been doing until they decided to do this.
Remember when TikTok was just porn in western children frontpages? That's my expectation, along with all the right wing loonies ironically setting up camp there and not realizing they're being used, by the Chinese, which btw, they will then love.
as opposed to right wing western oligarchs? runnung x, youtube, etc
After the US nonsense over TikTok these guys should have skipped the US in their international release and waited for Trump to complain about the US being excluded.
an English version of its website
No link to the website.