What is happening:
Due to massive grassroots backlash to the looming TikTok ban in the US, millions of users are currently creating accounts on Xiaohongshu aka “Little Red Book”. It is currently the top trending app in the Apple App Store.
Why it is special:
This is truly an unprecedented development. Never have regular American and Chinese netizens had the ability to mingle so freely. Even more unprecedented is the fact that most of this early conversation will be regarding backlash to the US itself. This presents us with an opportunity to appeal to a large swath of (mostly young) Americans at the same time.
What the goal is:
We have recently had several chats on this site about how to actually turn posting/effortposting into something positive. Several ideas have been floated regarding Agitprop and how to encourage the creation of engaging content, and many people agreed on the idea of Agitprop contests. That is what we will be trying to do here for the first time ever.
The contest/rules are quite loose here and definitely open to change, so feel free to give your input:
‼️In an effort to help shepard the rapidly growing disgruntled and pliable new English speaking audience on Xiaohongshu, the leftist post or comment for English speakers on Xiaohongshu that garners the most interactions before January 19th at 5PM GMT will be featured on c/agitprop.‼️
Simply submit by linking the post or comment in the replies of this post. Please try to include some kind of watermark that identifies it as a Hexbear user. Ideally if you can link back here we can foster a few new users as well. Good luck my fellow posters
As of now there are no submissions, so if you’d like to participate just comment a link to your post! Of course, feel free to reuse your own Hexbear posts, and if you want to use somebody else’s post reach out and ask permission first.
Wouldn’t this be a doxxing risk, since you have to link phone number in order to comment/post on xhs?
There are temp phone number services that give you real (aka not SIP) phone numbers. That way you can get the code with out using your number. https://www.smspool.net/ is a site I've used before. They accept crypto so you can avoid giving them your cc info.
usually phone confirmation sms phone numbers are not included on profiles.
the only exception i know of would be Signal, where the profile is tied to your phone number. but everyone who uses it knows that.
however the company might keep it, sell it, disclose it, etc. you can read the TOS and find out about applicable legislation to learn about the specifics. then you must consider breaches, leaks, negligence, malfeasance etc on top of that.
if someone gets your phone number they can easily find out everything else about you via past breaches. it is a highly valuable piece of data and anyone should be careful about protecting it.
Only if it’s reverse searchable (I’m unaware of the ability to do this) or if you use real details in your profile.
So as always, just exercise opsec
unless there is a data breach
which happen so routinely they aren't even news
Or just the company decides to hand over or sell the info. Posts over there might as well be in Facebook, associated to your real name