• @TechNerdWizard42
    link
    11 year ago

    China app shows global audience Chinese viewpoints! Bad!

    American app shows global audience American viewpoints! Good!

    Perhaps it is ok if humans don’t have one Borg Collective type hive mind and more than one opinion can coexist simultaneously.

    • @SCB
      link
      41 year ago

      What do you think is a positive viewpoint expressed by the Chinese government that should be spread around to avoid a Borg Collective hive mind?

      • @TechNerdWizard42
        link
        41 year ago

        The importance of STEM instead of sports and instafanous ambitions? The ability to spread soft power diplomacy through infrastructure building and not just bombing brown people into oblivion. How about something safe like food can have more spices than just black pepper.

        If you see EVERYTHING that China does as bad, you have fallen for the propaganda by the US. Nobody is perfect but nobody is pure evil either.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      -31 year ago

      The algorithm is different in China than it is in the US, this isn’t news. However we are waiting to hear what beneficial Chinese viewpoints we are lacking. Care to share?

      • @TechNerdWizard42
        link
        31 year ago

        I have Douyin as well and the content is completely different. Same person behind the little screen. It is a lot more news, or rather opinion pieces. Sort of like clipped interviews that you’d see with pundits on MSNBC or Fox.

        It’s also a lot more critical thinking and science and maths. For example it’s almost like the TV show How It’s Made where they tour a factory and show step by step. But it’s a fast narration showing all the steps. Math tricks on how to do basic and next level up math skills in a very different way than the west is taught.

        Exercise videos but not thirst traps. Translation and learn new language videos. Lots of that.

        There is some stupid fluff that is pure entertainment. The Asians love scripted funny scenes. There is some dancing and trending songs. But the ratio is completely flipped vs. Tiktok.

        • kpw
          link
          fedilink
          2
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Math tricks on how to do basic and next level up math skills in a very different way than the west is taught.

          As a math undergrad student I can tell you that if it doesn’t involve sitting down and thinking about it with pen and paper for a few hours it’s at best math related entertainment. No useful skills will be remembered.

          • @TechNerdWizard42
            link
            -11 year ago

            As a professional that has completed multiple years of calculus, discrete math, etc, that isn’t true. If you’re doing real math, you’re sitting down and doing it.

            Most of daily adult math is 1st grader level addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The tricks are for basics for children that you use as an adult.