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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

How language is hiding the real internet from you

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How language is hiding the real internet from you

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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Most of the internet is out of your reach, but the barrier isn't just algorithms. In another language, the same platforms turn into whole other worlds.
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    Not the people behind the great Chinese firewall. Both on Lemmy and Mastodon there are practically no Chinese or Korean instances. For some reason Japan is an exception.

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      We do have chinese users using Vpn most likely

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        But have you seen many instances where the chinese language is the main language?

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          Sometimes you just have to dig. https://mastodonservers.net/servers/chinese

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