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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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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 31 points 1 day ago (11 children)

"Little Red Book" is that a coincidence or no? 👀

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net lol your username is more relevant than ever. I still remember asking you about it.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago

Comrade Little Red Book please participate in this

[–] edge@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

If it drives some traffic here then that’s great regardless

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[–] KatGirl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love this because my anglo brain pan is limited to a single language

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

No I mean providing support to people to learn

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can folks recommend some good creators or something. How do I find the good stuff.

[–] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I put in my interests and the first post was from someone named "free palestine" and then a bunch of Luigi edits

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 day ago

They have my attention

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I follow a lot of art, fashion, DIY furniture, and vegan food posters. Might make a post if people are interested.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Would be cool!

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bumping this for the hexbear watermark for when I make shitpost memes on imgflip.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

hexbear-retro use this guy

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why can't you have watermarks?

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[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] glans@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day 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 day ago (1 children)

unless there is a data breach

which happen so routinely they aren't even news

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day 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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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] jack@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day 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 day ago (2 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

[–] companero@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got rate limited for a day boowomp

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[–] jack@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

kim-salute good work soldier

[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

it sends it to me like 4 hours late...and then doesn't accept it lol

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