Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global - Engadget
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The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.

The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    331·
    1 day ago

    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.)

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          9 hours ago

          You wouldn’t have an account for long if you did anyways. Billibilli makes the censorship on YouTube look like fucking childs play.

          Foreign politics are fine, world history is fine. But anything that remotely touches on modern Chinese history or politics gets nuked from orbit and aggressively attacked.

          It’s a big reason why if you use Chinese apps for any length of time the one oddly absent thing from all of them is chinese politics.

          It’s extremely hard to over state just how aggressive billiblli can be about this.