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Western leftists are so eager to talk politics on Little Red Book and the Chinese users are like (hexbear.net)
submitted 18 hours ago by NotLuigi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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You are welcome here but please don’t talk politics. This isn’t Baidu Tieba. I just want pictures of your cat.

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[–] 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 14 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 11 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