while the china community here is still young....
while the china community here is still young....
i hope this place takes off, reddit sucks and has for a while, it just has a critical mass of users so as a forum it works well. but i digress.
If this place takes off, it would be cool if the china community here isn't an anti-china circle-jerk like subreddit. that was getting pretty exhausting seeing burnt out expats delighting themselves at any misery experienced in china. /r/china and /r/sino were basically just two sides of the same jaded, acidic coin.
it would be pretty cool if we had actual mainland chinese people here, if we talked about living and working in china, interesting places to visit, social and economic news, and whats going on with the government with a bit more clear headed sobriety.
i can't do another DAE hate Winnie the poo circle jerk post.
or maybe im the one being annoying and pretentious, it would just be cool to have a place online about china that doesn't actively hate the country itself
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Yeah, I share your feelings towards both r/china and r/sino.
The pandemic certainly didn't help to keep people grounded to reality. The diet of just high level political and economical news was turning people cynical.
To get more Chinese people on the forum, it should be accessible from China.
I'll be traveling to China soon and am curious if latte.isnot.coffee is blocked.
OMG such a new community and already we have one of these bs "can we not have any anti CCP" posts. It was primarily a news site, news is primarily bad....get used to it. The sub of every country is full of bad news posts. The sino sub would seem to suit the OP down to the ground.
There is a China Life subreddit. I don't know what those people want. The CCP is central to life in China. It's not like it's in the background. The surveillance cameras watching you almost always, the hassle for foreigners to get anything done, the ability to send money, the not so long ago COVID lockdowns, the guards on every bridge. It's just pervasive and everywhere.
They're just shills that want to shut down anything anti ccp as always and to try and pass it off as eliminating anything "anti-China" content. They want to create a CGTN/sino sub type environment everywhere where China seems like it's all rose petals and puppy dogs. We used to get this type of dumb post all the time on the China sub, it seems it's already too late for this sub as well. The reality is no matter what country sub you go to it's mostly negative stuff because that is just what news is. Hence the well known phrase "no news is good news".
As for having real mainland Chinese on that China sub, there are already plenty there, apart from the paid shills, even despite it being blocked in China. And if you really want to see a lot of mainlanders check out China IRL which is all in Chinese and has just as much "anti China" stuff as the China sub.
If it's not blocked, and I believe it isn't, it would be if it started to become popular. r/china was mentioned in state media over the years, after all.
This server does work in China, however I would still advise a VPN for anyone coming here from within authoritarian regimes. I've taken precautions and mask IPs in the logs but still....