The chinese donald trump is fucking hilarious 六六六666
the real 川建国 🫡
He just nails Trump’s speech patterns. “A lot of Chinese traveling to other parts of China for the holiday. A lot of Chinese people are already there.”
yea its crazy, i do not want to know how many hours the man has spent perfecting that craft 😂
That’s so out of the blue? Is there any particular reason why the app got viral in the US?
It’s because a lot of high profile tiktok “content creators” are going there and taking their fan base with them.
TikTok is getting banned in the US so a bunch of users are going to Xiaohongshu instead. It’s basically to spite the American government.
No idea what made it go viral. That said, I just signed up and I’m digging it, this was literally the first thing in my feed
This is the first thing I see opening the appIs that a Lenin model kit or just a figure!?
Idk about the Lenin one, the sickle and hammer is a model kit. Link https://xhslink.com/a/SPKllNtXQyF3
it’s just so wholesome :)
It remains to be seen for how long. Libs will be freaking out when they find an intersection of Chinese users on political posts like the Ukraine-Russia war in the host app they’re going to as ‘refugees.’ Their bubble will be burst badly when people disagree with them. Also, I followed the ‘reading’ interest, and there’s a lot of Mao and the Red Book there. Americans will freak out over “genocider” worship in a Chinese TikTok alternative. This app will probably separate global servers from China servers to avoid that, like TikTok, if it wants to replace TikTok
Just wait until they ask about the Uyghurs.
I suspect that libs aren’t gonna touch the app with a ten foot pole, but there are a lot of people in US who are becoming radicalized out of liberal mainstream. Even if the US bans the app eventually, millions of Americans will now be talking directly to people living in China. The more people talk to each other the harder it will be for the US to dehumanize or stereotype China going forward.
Damn, I was browsing Hexbear and I’m tempted to install the app now. I’m kinda expecting for it to be a huge time sink considering how much I use Lemmy and Telegram on my phone lmao
I just downloaded it today. I’m not American so the ban doesn’t effect me (yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada follows suite) but I follow some awesome American creators and dont want to lose access to them so I followed the to Red Note.
I’m liking it so far, I do wish they’d give you a way to share stuff outside the app though.
Yeah, I went to check and the “copy link” function seems to only be for sharing in the app DMs. Hopefully they add a feature so we can share posts on here since they’re great. The cosplays are elite.
Really? I’ve used that function multiple times
I might be doing something wrong then because when I copied the link and put it into my search engine I got weird results. I’ll have to try again.
The app adds a bunch of text with the link including emoji. it looks like so:
77 邓可爱的烘焙日记发布了一篇小红书笔记，快来看吧！ 😆 2wxPctkAFUNJeku 😆 http://xhslink.com/a/1IG9gZNcPAO3%EF%BC%8C%E5%A4%8D%E5%88%B6%E6%9C%AC%E6%9D%A1%E4%BF%A1%E6%81%AF%EF%BC%8C%E6%89%93%E5%BC%80%E3%80%90%E5%B0%8F%E7%BA%A2%E4%B9%A6%E3%80%91App%E6%9F%A5%E7%9C%8B%E7%B2%BE%E5%BD%A9%E5%86%85%E5%AE%B9%EF%BC%81It DEFINITELY does that lol
You only need http://xhslink.com/a/1IG9gZNcPAO3
Oooh, that’s supposed to happen. I honestly thought I fucked something up. Thanks!
yeah it’s a little description like that one says something like “Deng’s lovely baking diary released a little red book note. Come and have a look!”
the content is top notch :)
LOL
So what is that app? Tiktok clone? Cause it’s not douyin right?
It’s Chinese Instagram, much better than BS Meta product.
So it’s instagram without the soft core porn of under age girls
Yes. The moderation team of XHS is great.
So in an attempt to thwart imagined Chinese propaganda, USians have pushed their user base into actual Chinese platforms. If even a portion of those users come to the realization that China are not evil harry potter villains, it would be a net win.
I would say it is one of the US’s bigger own-goals, but they have had so many.
Absolutely, there are now millions of Americans who are pissed off about TikTok ban who are now swimming in Communist media.
I feel like most people are smart enough to realize that the Tiktok ban is purely about censoring viewpoints that don’t fall in line with the State Department. So naturally, they want to see what else they’re not supposed to be seeing.
It’s making me sign up with either a phone number or a Google account ):
And you need to attach a phone number to comment anything. Are there any issues with using one of those temporary fake phone number generators?
ah I already had a wechat account so I signed in with that
That’s not much better because you need either a Facebook account or a phone number (again) for that too ))):
yeah I think I signed up with my phone number originally
It’s just to make an account. It’s not going to actually display your number. Just make a separate Google account and use that.
The Google account seems unnecessary if you’re attaching a number bc you could just sign up using only the number.
Anyway, I think I’m going to stick with the account I made using a dud gmail address and cope with being unable to post or comment anything
- Xiaohongshu
- Red Note
- Lemon8
Don’t mind me, just writing a list of apps that are gonna get firewalled by the US because of national security in about 2 years.
Aren’t Xiaohongshu and Rednote the same thing?
Yeah I just figured that out a little bit ago lol
Is Xiaohongshu and Rednote not 1 same app? Or is it also separated like TikTok and Douyin?
No it’s the same. I thought they were 2 separate apps.
I’m probably going to use this platform to help me learn Mandarin. There’s plenty of cool content on there, though. Interesting tech, awesome music and agitprop, etc.
Yeah I’m having a blast on the app so far, didn’t realize how much people in China miss USSR
I’ve seen a lot of nostalgic pro-Soviet content, but in a thread on the app where someone asked how they felt about the Soviet Union, there was a lot of sentiment being expressed that indicated that they’re still pretty sore towards the Soviet Union about the Sino-Soviet split.
I even saw people suggesting that in its post-Stalin state it was better for the Soviet Union to fall.
If I’m being honest, I was pretty shocked, but I held my tongue because it doesn’t feel like it’s my place to criticize.
Edit: to be clear, my experience on the app has been overwhelmingly positive, and I love seeing the cultural exchange, because it has me very hopeful that one of the most important pieces of propaganda that the American ruling class has inculcated in its working class (China bad) will be broken.
Honestly can’t blame them for being sour about it. Khrushchev fucked up big time there. Arguably, his denunciation of Stalin is what ultimately set USSR on the course it ended up on.
The whole point of the ban is to keep china from spying on US citizens. To move to another chinese platform is crazy to me! You know we have like instagram and facebook etc… the chinese propaganda is powerful!
Nobody with a functioning brain actually believes that the point of the ban is to keep China from spying on you idiots.
Lol why you so mad…?? Calm down.
I’m perfectly calm, I actually find jesters like you hilarious. Thanks for free entertainment.
Took you like 2hrs to calm down….
From 0 to 100
Is that the rough number of brain cells in your possession?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=nvZFLuu-_aQ
The US said the quiet part out loud that the reason for the TikTok ban is because young people were seeing media of the horrific acts of the Israeli regime and its genocide on Palestine, and the US did not have the ability to control the narrative and censor content on TikTok.
Bro you act like tiktok is the only foreign app that was showing us the Palestine war crimes. Why not close them all then???
I’m not acting like anything, the government is. Some of the reasons to your question include: the law is slow, TikTok is among the most popular, banning more apps would further kill the illusion that it is for OuR pRoTeCtIoN, and the US is trying to manufacture consent with a war with China by spreading anti-China propaganda and is failing to do so. The US wants to use its own tech and internet companies as a way to protect US hegemony and to not let other nations develop their own tech sovereignty. China’s Great Firewall is a protectionist policy that encourages their citizens to use and develop their own tech sovereignty, and now as they are starting to surpass the US internet companies, they are opening the doors to their platforms and giving people across the world a chance to connect on a truly global platform. Chinese citizens do not go to prison for using a VPN to access content in other countries. Europe is now considering their own Great Firewall as they realized that they are very dependent on US infrastructure, and such a firewall would help encourage their own internet industries to develop and improve their own sovereignty. US servers are also proving to be not safe for other countries to host websites given this aggressive ban and hostile behavior against foreign content which harms their hegemony.
Yes yes tik tok is harmless until its not… banning tiktok is not a freedom of speech issue but a massive security issue for the us. Also tiktok in china is not allowed to make china look bad so how long until those things make it to the US tiktok. You might not think its a good idea but I know its a great idea! China should of sold it now they deserve the ban!
Explain to me what TikTok did that was harmful. Explain to me how they used the data for malicious purposes. Also explain to me how US based companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, etc. aren’t doing the same thing and actually provide that information to the police to develop the surveillance and police state here. What’s China going to do with our data, sell it to AliExpress to make us treats?
Spying on citizens gov officials military etc…. You dont see how dangerous this is? A country who wants to invade our friends Taiwan should not have that information.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vxsjQxVU87c
The US officially recognizes the One China Rule, that Taiwan is a province in China, the PRC is the legitimate government of China, and that China and Taiwan should resolve their differences peacefully, which is the point of the One China Rule. Despite this, the US has funded $44 billion and created various military exchange programs for “Taiwan’s defense”, and China opposes this as obviously we don’t have a good track record with not funding and attacking foreign countries for our own gain. US wants to start a war with China because its hegemony is crumbling, and they want to keep the rich in power and not work toward a system where the workers benefit from universal healthcare, affording housing, etc.
Pretty sure the US military already have their own internal rules against using foreign apps. As for average citizens, you really think China’s going to send a CCP agent over to assassinate Joe Smoe in Wisconsin for saying mean things to China?
The point of the ban is to punish a company that won’t let the US spy on its users. To move to another Chinese app is self preservation for anyone that doesn’t want the most brutal regime ever to have existed to decide what information they’re allowed to share and receive. The US is the most propagandised place on earth.
Taking a quick look at it and I really liked the interface and design, and a replacement for Instagram is sorely needed (and with all due respect, the FOSS community will never be able to compete in “photography social media”).
I hope the surge in attention motivates them to either further internationalise the current app or do something like tiktok for the foreigners (as I can’t read Chinese and would rather avoid so many English-only digital spaces).
It’s already been updated with more localisations to accommodate international users.
This is the country that mobilised to be able to build pop-up hospitals and quarantine facilities in 5 days. Now there’s a huge amount of soft power settling on their doorstep and all they need to do to reel it in is update software.
I agree with you 100%. In plenty of countries, people will abandon US apps in a heartbeat as soon as their is a replacement available that is suitable.
Installed it to help boost their numbers that much more!
This news has made my week. I don’t know where it will lead, but right now, it’s a beautiful thing to see.
I’ve seen so many videos of Americans actually talking to people in China now, and it’s just so wholesome.
Love to see it. ❤️
America is so free its people are leaving this freedom for “eVil Gommunism”
i wish they had an english port
You can change the menu to english in the app. Some people use bubble translate to read chinese content, but if you’re only interacting with english language posts, you’ll mostly get english stuff in your fyp.
Despite their best efforts to paint China as the ultimate evil, people are still lining up to try their products. I feel like that says something.
It means “Little red book”
Hmmm 🤔
