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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

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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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[–] companero@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I appreciate the Lenin/Stalin/Mao stuff but I feel like the algorithm is trying to both-sides me by showing me literal Nazi shit as well disgost

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Got the same, I think they’re like “oh you like revolution era Russia, I bet you feel the same way about the third Reich”

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not 100% sure but it seems like at least one of the accounts that posts historical Soviet pictures also posts Nazi ones too. Although I also saw some of a user dressing up in Nazi stuffkombucha-disgust

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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"?
[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xiaohongshu is at least still hosted in China. If the US moves to ban the app, the company cant be forced to close servers that host US data like TikTok did.

It's funny because TikTok moved servers to TX specifically to appease the US govt. Now that TikTok may be gone soon, it may send a message to other app devs that moving servers here is risky, which only makes it harder for the Feds to follow

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[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Trend on Xiaohongshu: Americans have to pay a "cat tax" by showing photos of cats, which is then inspected by Chinese users who then allow entry.

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Someone said that the Chinese users of that app are kinda on the well-off yuppie side. Anyone know if that’s true?

[–] companero@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I mean that's kinda par for the course, no?

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Seems to be but tbf it didn’t take long at all for me to start seeing communist and pro-worker stuff in my feed for what it’s worth

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wouldn’t this be a doxxing risk, since you have to link phone number in order to comment/post on xhs?

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] glans@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unless there is a data breach

which happen so routinely they aren't even news

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] meth_dragon@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

id help but i got permabanned by the reactionary content moderation system for posting lukewarm 911 memes a while back

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

When I get off work. I plan on moving a fair amount of my TikTok content over. Still Miss Posadas if anyone wants to follow me on RedNote.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't it to send the verification text. It says it sent, but I don't receive anything.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Others have reported this as well. Just wait in the app until you can resend the code. It took a friend of mine 5 tries and a minute cooldown before actually getting the code

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[–] niph@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I’ve generally refused to download any Chinese apps for opsec reasons because I have family living and working there. Does anyone know anything about the data privacy of XHS? I’m not concerned about stuff I post on there but about access to the rest of my phone’s data.

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