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    2 months ago

    What the hell is WeChat? Did that WeWork guy start a social media service?

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      2 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

      TLDR: Chinese “Facebook” (actually its more like Facebook+Instagram+Twitter+ every social media combined into one + Googlepay/Applepay + A lot of government censorship)

      Its app only, no webpage or computers, requires a smartphone, requires a phone number. How much censorship and survelliance depends on what phone number you use. Accounts with Mainland Chinese number will have a much stricter censorship and more data collected. Accounts with a western number will have less strict censorshop and less data collected (probably about the same amount of data collected by western corporate social medias).

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        2 months ago

        app only, no website

        Oh fuck this future! Anyways, thanks for the information.