I was a little disappointed in the binary gender choice when creating an account. But at least it's not owned by an American tech company.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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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.
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I missed that! I stand corrected, thank you.
The users on this app are really nice I posted a picture of my cat with no tags and I already got 2 comments
Hell yeah
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Great things are happening in Rednote
It's like ¥120 for an ambulance in Wuhan, it's a bloody outrage it is
Ambulance is not free in mainland China, but (relatively speaking) cheap enough subject to regional differences. Average is probably 120-150 yuan for a 3km ride. Private hospitals can cost even higher because they only care about profits. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has had free ambulance service since the 1980s.
Police and firefighters are free though.
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If dabs would be okay with it, slowly uploading the entire collection would be cool. Or at least the best hits.
I am totally confused.
- Tiktok might be "banned" because of its association with China. Isn't fleeing to another Chinese platform kind of stupid? Wouldn't it be vulnerable to the same thing?
- The point of this is to motivate tik tok users to move to Xiaohongshu? Or it is to draw attention to hexbear on Xiaohongshu?
- This is a shopping website?
- Why do you think the tik tok audience is "pliable"?
Isn't fleeing to another Chinese platform kind of stupid? Wouldn't it be vulnerable to the same thing?
In the long term, yes. But I think that's also kind of the point: the more USians migrate there and see the unmediated realities of life in China, the more pressured the gov will feel to ban it, the more widely unpopular the decision will be. Sort of like a vanguard party in a hopelessly bourgeois electoral system: their final role is to get fucked over and outlawed in a way that pisses a lot of people off, lays bare the class antagonism at play (this part is pretty bare already tbf) and legitimizes going outside the ruling party's boundaries in the eyes of the public.
The more we can do to foster and normalize this connection, the more impactful and radicalizing it's predictable severing will be
It being another Chinese platform is the whole point. It's funny and sends a message that no one cares about the government's stupid sinophobic fearmongering.
And if the government shuts down another app.... Well that sends a nice friendly message to the masses that we in fact are not free.
I would say the purpose is to do agitprop for the rapidly growing and upset English speaking population arriving on the app that doesn’t have a whole lot of English language content to consume. Redirecting some to Hexbear would be great for agitprop purposes, especially since the Americans moving to Xiaohongshu are most likely ones who are extra upset
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Damn the rednote sms verification code isnt working for me
I cant believe xi would rather let in amerikkkan pigdogs then me 😔
Dengist revisionism has gone too far
It's down for me too, I swapped phones recently and haven't logged in since late November and now the SMS isn't sending. I am literally in China. Smdh
It just worked for me a few minutes ago, maybe there's intermittent server overloads happening.
Yes, servers have been overwhelmed with code requests for first time logins
id help but i got permabanned by the reactionary content moderation system for posting lukewarm 911 memes a while back
It would be really funny if the TikTok ban because of sinophobia ends up causing being pro-China to become a mainstream opinion among young Americans, making neo-Red Scare propaganda more ineffective.
The patriot act did this, which is hilarious. Younger millennials and gen z never grew up expecting their data to have any privacy, so the “China is stealing your data” thing doesn’t really work on them. They also generally are saying “well what is China going to do with it anyway? I don’t care”
Right if given the choice between the Chinese or the US govt having my data, I will take China, thanks. The US gov will probably use it to imprison me for thought crimes. The Chinese gov will just use it to market more treats to me on AliExpress.
And I like Chinese treats, what can I say?
They also generally are saying “well what is China going to do with it anyway? I don’t care”
Legitimately what is China going to do with it? Beyond just selling it like every other tech company.
I highly doubt the PRC cares enough to keep track of random US citizens, but the US government definitely does. My data is safer in Chinese hands than American.
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I particularly love the "social credit score" bit.
So China built a panopticon to try to improve civility? Anerica built a panopticon to precision-price debt and insurance. Which is the better use of the resources and social compromises?
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