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)

  • Doom@discuss.online
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    5 days ago

    Won’t last. Youtube offers financial incentives and originally when Youtube got big it had lax as fuck censorship which is what gained it’s initial popularity. Unless China is going to be entirely lax in the same way, there is no incentive for people to move over.

  • fearlessseraphim@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    In my opinion, I feel like they’re the same because of censorship issues and nothing out of Chinese technology is ever really good 😭

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    They’re going to need to drastically change how the platform looks if they want to succeed. In typical Chinese app fashion the UI is incredibly bloated and overwhelming, not what a Western audience wants at all. They also won’t be able to match YouTube’s CPM so creators won’t bother switching either.

  • percent@infosec.pub
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    6 days ago

    YouTube’s censorship has become worse than cable TV’s (in the US). I have a feeling that BiliBili will only further normalize the aggressive censorship, like TikTok did.

  • Deniz@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    thats good news youtube was mainstream so looong that it becomes to eat itself slowly seeing some competitions maybe lead the long form video market better

  • Axolotl@feddit.it
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    6 days ago

    Tbh, i hope it doesn’t take off since chinese companies are forced to hand their user data to the chinese government

  • Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    I’m all for it, America needs to be reminded of what capitalism actually is.

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    6 days ago

    I’ve been using an account with a translator. They have some unique niche videos I can’t find anywhere else.