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Good. I didn't think the WeChat ban made much sense to begin with. Sidenote, I've noticed more and more people joining Telegram to evade a potential WeChat ban

by wyxuan 6y ago

Good. I didn't think the WeChat ban made much sense to begin with. Sidenote, I've noticed more and more people joining Telegram to evade a potential WeChat ban. I wonder if they're going to stay on Telegram.

altdatathrow 6y ago
There was never an actual ban for WeChat coming. It was just so they could point to WeChat and say "See, the ban wasn't entirely to force the sale of TikTok but one of protecting national interest!"
gruez 6y ago
>Sidenote, I've noticed more and more people joining Telegram to evade a potential WeChat ban. I wonder if they're going to stay on Telegram. Isn't the whole point of using wechat is its large chinese userbase? AFAIK telegram is banned in china, so I'm not sure why that'd be the logical choice.
- srtjstjsj 6y ago
  If WeChat and all US-China apps are banned due to the conflicting US and Chinese policies on communications control, those Chinese users don't matter anymore because they have no options.
- wyxuan 6y ago
  There are still a lot of parent groups for people that live in the US that operate entirely on wechat, so there's that
- fishywang 6y ago
  Telegram cannot replace the use case of Chinese living in the US keep contact with their family in China (because Telegram is blocked in China, as you said), but it could replace the use case of Chinese living in the US contact each other. I hate wechat for its user experience, when my mom need to say something to me she usually send wechat message to my wife, because I check my wechat for, maybe, once per week. But a lot of Chinese living in the US seem to not mind its user experience, and like to use wechat as the way of contact each other. I think one of the reason might be that in the US there's not one dominate IM app that everyone is using, so wechat is like the next best thing that at lease every Chinese is using. Now a lot of Chinese also start to use Telegram there's hope (but I won't hold my breath for it).

by wyxuan 6y ago

altdatathrow 6y ago

There was never an actual ban for WeChat coming. It was just so they could point to WeChat and say "See, the ban wasn't entirely to force the sale of TikTok but one of protecting national interest!"

gruez 6y ago

>Sidenote, I've noticed more and more people joining Telegram to evade a potential WeChat ban. I wonder if they're going to stay on Telegram. Isn't the whole point of using wechat is its large chinese userbase? AFAIK telegram is banned in china, so I'm not sure why that'd be the logical choice.

srtjstjsj 6y ago
If WeChat and all US-China apps are banned due to the conflicting US and Chinese policies on communications control, those Chinese users don't matter anymore because they have no options.
wyxuan 6y ago
There are still a lot of parent groups for people that live in the US that operate entirely on wechat, so there's that
fishywang 6y ago
Telegram cannot replace the use case of Chinese living in the US keep contact with their family in China (because Telegram is blocked in China, as you said), but it could replace the use case of Chinese living in the US contact each other. I hate wechat for its user experience, when my mom need to say something to me she usually send wechat message to my wife, because I check my wechat for, maybe, once per week. But a lot of Chinese living in the US seem to not mind its user experience, and like to use wechat as the way of contact each other. I think one of the reason might be that in the US there's not one dominate IM app that everyone is using, so wechat is like the next best thing that at lease every Chinese is using. Now a lot of Chinese also start to use Telegram there's hope (but I won't hold my breath for it).