see, you say “every now and then” but i see it every single time
just putting that out there. would love to see a world where English speakers are aware of the material struggles Chinese citizens face, and vice versa, at least alongside the memetic symbols like Pooh and Tank Man, instead of hidden behind them.
most likely its just a joke. “i airdropped this to everyone at [location]” has become a trope thats almost its own meme format and doesn’t require any proof.
It was actually digital leaflets, not Winnie the Pooh. (source)
I know it’s not your fault, but honestly, the Winnie the Pooh meme is so overplayed. It distracts from the real, documented activism happening in China and brings up a tired, dehumanizing joke over an incredibly serious issue. It feels ignorant and reduces the gravity of what's happening there. Again, I know you didn’t mean it this way—it’s just a broader problem with how the English-speaking internet often frames these discussions.
the biggest flaw with lemmy is that none of yall can conceptualize how difficult it is to convince your entire friend group to migrate platforms
the furry community on twitter is and almost always has been massive. (edit: i think i was corrected by an actual member of the community below, im slightly misinformed here) nothing went wrong—things just haven’t gone right yet to get them to transfer like journalists and activists have.
it’s not possible anymore iirc because of a recent update. you can enable universal receiving but it turns off after a few minutes always. OOP is making this story up most likely.
rude lol you told me i misstated and i responded with everything i know. all three titles, 2 english, 1 mandarin-english transliteration, are common even on the app itself
always welcome to counterexamples but i see no evidence of hiding going on from all my personal experience :)
didn’t misstate. yes the mandarin title xiaohongshu most directly translates to little red book. what might you call a little book? a notebook. note. so rednote, little red book, or red notebook are all translations of the original. rednote is simply the easiest to say for anglophones as it’s fewer syllables and the one that has been chosen colloquially. not that complicated lol.
more info is available right on wikipedia none of this is like a secret or something:
The app was initially called "Hong Kong Shopping Guide" and targeted Chinese tourists.[8]
The name Xiaohongshu or 'Little Red Book' was inspired by its co-founder Mao Wenchao [zh]'s career at Bain & Company and education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; both institutions feature red as their main color.[9][10]
'Little Red Book' is also the English nickname for the 1964 compilation Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.[8][11]
The app is often called RedNote by U.S. users.[10][12]
You clearly came into this conversation with your mind made up so I am under no obligation to answer all your questions :P This is why people don’t like engaging with you
Flying Squid: “is ice cream with waffles good?”
me: “literally all my experience shows that the answer is yes”
Political content is entirely banned on the app so your assertion that it pushes political propaganda when it refuses to host anything political at all is kind of reactionary fake news.
Agree to all, but just to add clarity, there is existing Mandarin LGBT content that was posted prior to the US influx. If there is moderation of queer voices going on, it’s a a similar level to what we are already familiar with from Meta and TikTok, not significantly more.
correct, and i do think that is history that led to the eventual degradation of the threadiverse term. but the original meaning as i showed above was intended to label fediverse platforms in contrast to mastodon and other microblogs.
I sacrificed my soul to go over and check it out, immediately followed a bunch of LGBT creators of both US and Chinese locale. Nothing I followed or liked seems to have been removed yet, so just giving my two honest cents on that. The stuff that gets removed appears to be mainly Chinese politics and that’s it.
Is it the perfect protest solution? Naw.
Is it better than Musk and Zuckerberg getting a shit ton of free revenue from their corruption? Yea.
see, you say “every now and then” but i see it every single time
just putting that out there. would love to see a world where English speakers are aware of the material struggles Chinese citizens face, and vice versa, at least alongside the memetic symbols like Pooh and Tank Man, instead of hidden behind them.