Obviously not. You take the good with the bad just like every social media; yes bad that political discussions like Palestine aren’t present. Good that discussions about jobs, healthcare, language learning, and socialism with Chinese characteristics are.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah fair, but cmon it's genocide it makes me sad they also don't care

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

In the little discourse I’ve seen, people support Palestine and oppose the genocide, it’s just not the app for that (yet? There’s been a huge uptick since yesterday) per the government. Definitely not defending it, just pointing out the benefits and downsides to the platform

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

that is not the general vibe on xhs

what's xhs?

[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago

Xiaohongshu, in English people call it RedNote or Little Red Book

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Lazy American can’t type xiaohongshu

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve already got the keyboard installed, I’m ready to go type 小红书 if I had to

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 hours ago

Next language I'm learning is Mandarin just give me a year or two to really perfect my Spanish