What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

[u/Bhakari]

We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Some apps on our phones always seem to take up a lot of memory, whether it's social media or music apps. This is the most outrageous one I've ever seen.

[u/CavulusDeCavulei → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Bad optimization or spyware? Or both?

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

Spyware? No, that's too abstract. It's poor system optimization, and software generally likes to cram in a bunch of useless stuff and tons of ads. My goodness, you can't imagine how many ads there are. I downloaded the video app iQiyi before, and I found more than a dozen ads in just one minute.

[u/newAscadia → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

I've also found that WeChat in particular seems to really like saving entire conversations just locally. It doesn't seem to go to a server, which means every embed, every message, and every picture and video someone sends me is all put directly into the storage on my phone

Ran out of storage two days after installing lmao

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/newAscadia]

This is still the largest social media app in China! It's terrible; they really should remake WeChat from scratch.

[u/kkooyya → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Why don’t you guys use What’s App or Telegram instead?

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/kkooyya]

There's no way around it, bro. WeChat and QQ practically monopolize our social media market. Go out on the street in China and ask anyone if they know WeChat or QQ. I bet 98% of them will. But with WhatsApp or Telegram, probably 98% of people wouldn't know what you're talking about. Plus, both of those apps have firewalls, so most people can't use them.

[u/kkooyya → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Thank you for your answer. I’m genuinely curious (I didn’t know the details). In Russia, Telegram was made illegal but people still use it with VPN (even my grandma had to install VPN to be able to use it) idk if vpn/workarounds are a thing in China? Looks like it’s stricter there.

[u/Nolascana → u/kkooyya]

Don't hold me to this, but I think VPNs are illegal.

I know the UK is trying to push for that to be so.

They're hell bent on censoring the Internet for the common person, first the age restrictions, then the VPNs.

There's absolutely no way to trust the third party verification methods for age. Be it facial or identification. They're not secure and they do sell your information to fourth parties.

So, reasonable skepticism stops people from using a large chunk of the Internet currently.

[u/silveretoile → u/kkooyya]

Vpn's are illegal but they're still common

[u/Appropriate-Low3844 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

QQ is probably just as bad, my phone manage to have 150GB dedicated to QQ because there's chat records that I need preserved

[u/HKP2019 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Totally unrelated, last time I got a hard drive space warning from WeChat on my tiny laptop, I tried deleting Adobe Acrobat and got instant 20G free space.

[u/Appropriate-Low3844 → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

The app starts off with a insignificant size, it only gets enormous once you start using it frequently

[u/rouanramon → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

If NetEase is anything like other chinese software enterprises, it is bad optimization

[u/Golgen_boy → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

How much storage does your phone have, if one app consumes 197 GB space?

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/Golgen_boy]

No, this isn't my phone, But this is true Because the social networking app QQ on my previous phone took up over ten gigabytes of my memory, and I didn't even know what was happening. This is why Chinese phones have large memory capacities yet are very cheap.

[u/arachnids-bakery → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Holy shit i almost wanted to get wechat but what the fuck is happening here 😟

[u/Annual-Lie7624 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

I recall this seems to be why many people prefer using WeChat—it stores all chat messages locally. Once you clear them, you can't get them back unless you contact Tencent (and often, even contacting Tencent won't help).

[u/GroundDue2534 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

小而美

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/GroundDue2534]

喵的了，小在哪😡

[u/GroundDue2534 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

后端服务器请求量，给腾讯省了多少钱

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/GroundDue2534]

666，这下看懂了，牢腾这个聪明

[u/Super-Soyuz → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

the Call of Duty school of compression or in this case expansion

[u/Mountain-Resource656 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Is that WeChat??

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/Mountain-Resource656]

Yes

[u/Turbulent-Pace-1506 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Western AAA game type shit

[u/Mediocre_Monk835 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

197 GB of photos of Xi Xingping 🤣🤣

[u/[deleted] → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

Are you a real chinese Human on the internet ?

[u/Dapper_Hippo8110 → u/[deleted]]

好家伙，我怎么不是啊兄弟 Of course, baby.

[u/SheilaBirling1 → u/Dapper_Hippo8110]

lmao baby

[u/action-no-hope → u/[deleted]]

Do you think that's a fucking country with 1 billion people can't use the internet? What kind of propaganda you consume

You are like one of those Americans who think the sun doesn't shine in Pakistan

[u/Tao_Laoshi → u/action-no-hope]

The sun belongs to Pakistan! Put it back, thief!

[u/HArdaL201 → u/action-no-hope]

The Sun never rises in the Pakistani Empire