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azn_cyniq

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Has anyone else heard of "Chinese" subreddits like r/China_irl? They seem to be filled with the most pathetic kind of Chinese people imaginable. I saw a popular post blaming Xi for a few isolated incidents of racism against a Chinese man abroad. Do any of you know anyone who uses those subreddits in real life?
 

A potato

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Has anyone else heard of "Chinese" subreddits like r/China_irl? They seem to be filled with the most pathetic kind of Chinese people imaginable. I saw a popular post blaming Xi for a few isolated incidents of racism against a Chinese man abroad. Do any of you know anyone who uses those subreddits in real life?
oversees Hanjian. as well a separatist minorities (Found an ethnic Kazakh who moved to Kazakhstan from china)
 

BlackWindMnt

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Has anyone else heard of "Chinese" subreddits like r/China_irl? They seem to be filled with the most pathetic kind of Chinese people imaginable. I saw a popular post blaming Xi for a few isolated incidents of racism against a Chinese man abroad. Do any of you know anyone who uses those subreddits in real life?
ooh reddit is full of westerners larping as chinese.
 

caohailiang

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Hi
I recently start to use iphone14, but no matter what browser(chrome, firefox, safari), none of them can access SDF, the response i get is ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
anyone knows about this?
Thanks
 

vincent

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Hi
I recently start to use iphone14, but no matter what browser(chrome, firefox, safari), none of them can access SDF, the response i get is ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
anyone knows about this?
Thanks
All iOS browsers have to use Apple's own webkit engine.
I have an iPhone 13 and I don't have problem accessing the site. Can you try to use a VPN or a public wifi?
 

Phead128

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Has anyone else heard of "Chinese" subreddits like r/China_irl? They seem to be filled with the most pathetic kind of Chinese people imaginable. I saw a popular post blaming Xi for a few isolated incidents of racism against a Chinese man abroad. Do any of you know anyone who uses those subreddits in real life?
It is 99% Westerners. There are no real Chinese in /r/China, /r/HongKong, etc... it's all Westerners or bots.

As proof, /r/HongKong was 70K in 2019 (similarly to /r/Korea 's 80K), and after the HK protests, it skyrocketed to 600K in under 3 months. Almost ALL are all Westerners, and even before the protests, it was mostly Westerners, since HKers have their own LIHKG and own forums.
 

BMUFL

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It is 99% Westerners. There are no real Chinese in /r/China, /r/HongKong, etc... it's all Westerners or bots.

As proof, /r/HongKong was 70K in 2019 (similarly to /r/Korea 's 80K), and after the HK protests, it skyrocketed to 600K in under 3 months. Almost ALL are all Westerners, and even before the protests, it was mostly Westerners, since HKers have their own LIHKG and own forums.
Eh, it's true for most of reddit, but r/China_irl is kind of different. Its Chinese-language content filters out most of "foreigners" (for some definition thereof, anyway). The vibes, from what I can remember at least, was okay-ish (I don't post on reddit anymore)... somewhere between libs and pinkies, because most of crazies are self-contained in other subs. Of course, everything went down the drain after that certain other sub got banned for posting Cheese Pizza (allgedly), and the containment was thus breached.
 
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