"Little Red Book" is that a coincidence or no? 👀
agitprop
A reservoir of memes and image macros to spam on other forums.
As always, follow sitewide code of conduct.
You can also tag OC with the Hexbear watermark!
@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net lol your username is more relevant than ever. I still remember asking you about it.
Comrade Little Red Book please participate in this
The act to ban TikTok allows the President to designate any site as being a "threat" like TikTok, thus banning it, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is next.
If it drives some traffic here then that’s great regardless
I try to log in/create an account but I get some error I am unable to read due to being uncool and not knowing Mandarin. /s on second half of sentence
A good idea might be to focus on language learning as agitprop? Lots of people are going to use the app for a bit, get frustrated by not knowing how to read everything and leave.
Basic reading instruction to follow memes could help with that, as well as posting translated versions of popular memes.
I would love this because my anglo brain pan is limited to a single language
Don't be too hard on yourself! Learning a language is very difficult. When I mentioned to my Chinese friends that I was trying to learn, they all universally told me to not get discouraged because it's very different to what I'm used to. They experienced the same thing in reverse, basically.
so like you want to do "if it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking german now!" but backwards and for chinese?
very interested to see what happens here
No I mean providing support to people to learn
Can folks recommend some good creators or something. How do I find the good stuff.
I put in my interests and the first post was from someone named "free palestine" and then a bunch of Luigi edits
I tried it and mostly I just got a lot of videos of someone scritching their cat. Which is great I do want to see that but.
They have my attention
I'm also curious what you can find on Xiaohongshu, as someone that's not really into traditional social media (unless you count Reddit or YouTube). Is there any educational or interesting topics discussed there?
You can manage your algorithm far more easily than TikTok or YouTube. You can actually add specific topics of interest to your content preferences and use sliders to tell the algorithm how heavily you want them weighted into your personalized theme.
All of this is located under “content preferences” though it isn’t yet available in English UI.
I follow a lot of art, fashion, DIY furniture, and vegan food posters. Might make a post if people are interested.
Would be cool!
Bumping this for the hexbear watermark for when I make shitpost memes on imgflip.
use this guy
I've seen people note that videos they've tried to migrate from TikTok to Xiaohongshu have removed due to watermarks.
Do we know if a Hexbear watermark will get the content removed?
It's also possible that those videos were removed for other reasons that the poster didn't understand due to the moderation info being in Mandarin, or that they specifically don't want watermarks from other social media but I thought it was worth mentioning.
That’s interesting. I’m unaware of this, but at the very least putting it in the description should work fine should we find that watermarks get removed.
Wouldn’t this be a doxxing risk, since you have to link phone number in order to comment/post on xhs?
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
How can we get as many eyes as possible on James Rehwald's stuff? I think it's probably as good as it's gonna get and there's already a good library of content there covering a broad range of topics. Anyone know of a way to contact him to see if he wants to put his stuff up himself or give permission for someone else to reupload?
I doubt he personally goes to the platform considering his line of work in marketing so reposting his videos will probably be the way to get eyes on it there. They’re always so good. I wonder how they’d do feedback-wise with a mixed American and Chinese audience.
Frankly, assuming he is a principled leftist of some sort, I don’t think he’d have a problem with just openly reposting it until he has a presence on the app (if he even chooses to) since he is likely not just chasing clout
Alright well I'm not on the app and I've more or less sworn off social media outside of this place so hopefully someone cooler than me can do that!
I can't it to send the verification text. It says it sent, but I don't receive anything.
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
I will keep trying
good work soldier
it sends it to me like 4 hours late...and then doesn't accept it lol