I mean, I have no idea about the rise of Weibo other than it was an attempt to make Chinese Twitter. 🤮 I know that Weibo has been crashing and burning recently, much like Twitter has, so it's filled with a bunch of semi-illiterate people screaming at each other. Also they're bleeding users to Douyin, because micro videos are the thing now, 'cuz people are too lazy to read.

Meanwhile, Lofter had a huge company shake up when the government came down on their heads, and now it's like the most milquetoast place. I don't really understand their censorship stuff, tho', because other than posting pictures, everything I have tried to write has been blocked by the censor. Clearly, opinions and facts are not tolerated on the site. Even linking to a foreign site will get the entry taken down. (All I was trying to do is show a picture of a fucking bike, but scary overseas link is not allowed, I guess.)