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Godort@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
WeChat is like Facebook and Venmo combined into one app. I understand that it pretty much replaced cash entirely in China.
Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat
Godort@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
WeChat is like Facebook and Venmo combined into one app. I understand that it pretty much replaced cash entirely in China.
Pruning9165@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Basically yes. It’s THE app. Now it looks like it also integrates meituan (≈ Groupon) and JD (≈amazon)
And it looks like if your social score goes over 500 points, you can activate buy now pay later like klarna
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Chat, social media feed (both in TikTok style and also in Twitter/Instagram mashup style), it has everything. It takes 7gb of space on my phone and I only have like 3 chats. I’m guessing for heavy users it takes over the full storage of the phone
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
This app must have been designed by devil to torture digital minimalists and UNIX philosophy people in the afterlife
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
WeChat is not a whole lot different to a browser/os at that point. It’s basically THE government mandated iOS, which contains THE government mandated app store. A way of forcing everyone to use their walled garden surveillance system even if they have a computer not under the control of the regime, like the entire Chinese diaspora and any foreigner dumb enough to install it.