Google is such a bully, I want china to succeed.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Unless I can make A whole channel dedicated to 1989 Massacre Im not interested.
Oh boy coyote urine over coyote urine my fave.
Unfortunately Coyote Urine is still more expensive per month than Youtube Premium. I'm not sure if this affects your plans.
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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.
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.
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
Happy for the competition, sad that it came from a place that will probably censor things even harder.
Okay peertube, now's your time to shine! Become the default for the Fediverse by stepping in during this power struggle
I've been using a VPN to watch stuff there for years
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.
Yes but we shouldn't discourage competition because at the end of the day monopolies are bad.
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I'm all for it, America needs to be reminded of what capitalism actually is.
Knowing our govt, Google will lobby them to ban BiliBili so they can enjoy classic american protectionism. Can't make it in a free market so just ban / tariff the competition to hell.
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the way i imagine it:
- as long as it's american companies running everything, it's "fair" and "free market".
- as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we'll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to "protect american values", "for our national security" or sth else. i've seen this soo many times. people who "just follow the rules" as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.
Kinda like the EV situation in Europe (especially germany). European car makers benefited from cheap chinese labor force for centuries now while their executives, sitting in china, saw in real time how china started working on EV cars and thought nothing about it, riding high on their hubris since "no one could ever outpace them". And now that china outpaced them the european coalition quickly released enormous tariffs on chinese EV imports to "secure the european car market" and "save themselves from the sheer wave of cheap (and nowadays also way better) EV cars." When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
I trust this as much as I trust big American tech platforms.
Considering how much damage Google et al do, I legitimately wonder whether China could even do worse, and I’m not even a tankie.
Yes they could, but it's really a question of their incentives. They could easily use it to manipulate elections, etc. The biggest danger is probably to East Asia where China is trying to claim most of the ocean, using it to copy what US Republicans has been doing with Facebook and Twitter to support attacks on politicians opposing them. See also how Facebook ignored its role in the Myanmar genocide
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I mean. This is… Not worse than now, I guess?
Any entity that can take a chunk out of YouTube’s dominance is a good thing.
But I’m not going to celebrate another corp making a shamelessly monetized video site. They’re independent-ish now, yes, but for how long? It’s just a different flavor of attention gaming and enshittification in the long run.
And I’m skeptical they have the muscle to significantly displace YouTube’s iron grip on everything, even with Google tightening the screws.
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I just downloaded it. No sign up necessary but it asks for a birthdate. (I just picked June 4 1989 randomly, ofc.)
It uses AI to translate from Chinese to your selected language. The image below shows available languages.
You don't need to login to upvote videos. However, you not be able to comment or reply. Also, viewing comments is limited.
To create your account, you have to provide your phone number, which is an automatic "not happening" for me.
Once your phone number is "bound", you can link your Google account for your login. This will make it easier for East-West cooperation in data mining and mass surveillance.
You can also use an email and password of your own choosing.
Overall, I can't see me actually binding my phone number to make an account.
Anyway, here's what my feed looked like when I opened the app and skipped account creation/login:
Some AI looking slop, of course.
Of the first dozen or so, only two seemed interesting - the Rick Roll meme history and a Brazilian explaining how to use "lá ele" in conversation. (I speak Brazilian Portuguese so this was actually very cool to see.)
(I just picked June 4 1989 randomly, ofc.) 🤣
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I've heard of Billibilli. It's great for pirated films and TV shows that you can't get anywhere else.
I don't really trust it to be much better at respecting privacy than YouTube, but at this point, I'd be surprised if it was any worse, and YouTube has been getting worse for lack of competition for over a decade now
I feel like we’re entering a world where you have competing surveillance states, and citizens from either would be behooved to use technology from the other. For the simple fact that these two states don’t cooperate, using the other sides technology is inherently safer. They have far fewer manners of or financial interests in fucking you.
Yeah. At this point as an American I'm way less worried about in the Chinese government tracking me than I am with the US government. The Chinese government is evil, but I don't live in China.
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I can't wait for this to be announced as a threat to national security after creating mild competition for YouTube.
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Good. Seriously - enough with YouTube’s vs censorship and making predators like Jake Paul and mr beast into millionaires
Edit: Ugh… checked on bilibili and noticed he also has a channel there. The guy is like a parasite to humanity
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Cool. If they allow views while using ad-blockers I’m in.
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