this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 15 points 12 hours ago

I made an account and posted a picture of one of my cats and a Chinese user has already sent me a picture of a receipt telling me I have paid entry to the app via cat pic. I really do hope westerners stay, listen, and learn from our comrades on the other side of the world.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 61 points 1 day ago

An unprecedented level of Americans are about to witness the power of Chinese posting. The Great Firewall was not to protect Chinese people from the rest of the world. It was to protect the rest of the world from Chinese posters.

[–] Prof_mu3allim@hexbear.net 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago

top tier posting comrade-stoic

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

Imagine millions of dedicated Chinese communists suddenly being able to interact with the western English speaking internet. Vibes of Hexbear federating writ large

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We're witnessing cooking at rates scientists thought were impossible.

[–] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 32 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If USians use Rednote, will they be interacting directly with Chinese users?

I don't know anything about these apps.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 43 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, precisely. I haven’t figured out the doge meme because it usually denotes sarcasm, but this seems nice

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 30 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Hell yeah. Can we organize a group of Hexbears to meet on the other side?

I can't wait to be unironically called a lib by Chinese comrades.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 36 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

in the modchat someone mention making an official hexbear account and just reposting the popular posts from here to there

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

That'd be a great idea

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago

That's awesome.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not a particularly political sort of place. It's a lot of aesthetic and educational posts so far. I'm picking up a lot of chinese cultural things there, but no politics beyond the occasional trump meme.

But that may just be my page, or maybe there are more untranslated spoken videos that have that

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

No you’re correct. “History/current events” eg Ukraine war and ww2 content abounds, but the original users specifically recommend not talking about politics (outside of upholding the one China policy ofc)

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Are Americans capable of not talking about politics? I guess the MAGA chuds probably won't be joining a Chinese app so that probably helps.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So far, not really. We’ll see how that turns out. Although a surprising proportion of maga gunfuckers have signed up

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

CHYNER BAD BUT ALSO TICTAK USERS ARE JOINING A CHYNA APP. I MUST JOIN TOO frothingfash

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

The Chinese text on the bottom says this user posted from Germ*ny

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

probably studying there

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ok so we're not in the Star Trek universe, or it's Mirror Universe.

We're in THAT universe: https://youtu.be/EOksPjRuYKo

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

hell yes brother

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago

The West is Red(note)