Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week.
  • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    19 minutes ago

    A wee quote from the author of the original little red book …:
    the two slogans – let a hundred flowers blossom and let a hundred schools of thought contend – have no class character; the proletariat can turn them to account, and so can the bourgeoisie or others. Different classes, strata and social groups each have their own views on what are fragrant flowers and what are poisonous weeds.

    Seemed a good idea at the time, remember how that trick evolved thereafter …?

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    RedNote’s Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, literally translates to “Little Red Book,” which seems like a direct reference to a book of quotes from Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung. But The Washington Post reported that the app is designed to be apolitical and its co-founder, Mao, maintains that the name instead pays “homage to the colors of his college,” Stanford Business School, and his former employer, Bain Capital.

    Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeetthefuckouttahere!

  • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
    264·
    2 hours ago

    It amazes me how people apparently can’t live without watching shitty videos all the time… Oh, well.

  • JiveTurkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    517·
    3 hours ago

    I tried to challenge some ideas in World News and I guess asking questions about Chinese censorship is xenophobic. Now I’m banned for not being pro Chinese censorship.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      61·
      2 hours ago

      Tiktok is for westoid plebs… They got different agendas for daddy’s property v their own subjects

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    To bad they didn’t hear about Loops. I don’t use this stuff so I have no idea if it’s good or not, but it’s not Chinese or collecting your data so it would be worth a try. Although if 400k users flooded it I have serious doubts they could scale to meet a demand like that.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        30 minutes ago

        It was waitlist for a while, not sure if it still is but I got my welcome email like a week later.

    • RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      2 hours ago

      The scalability is my concern too. It took me like 8 days after I signed up before I got my login to Loops.

      Gotta say I really like it, though

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        365·
        3 hours ago

        Oh come off it mate. It’s not hard to see where the US has lead the charge in topics such as LGBT+ rights or racial equality, and it wasn’t from Asia or Europe let me tell you that much.

        They may have a shit ton of flaws, and have a large part actively trying to undo all their work, but they have still done so much positive.

        Look at the timeline for marriage equality for instance, they were right up there with the first wave leading the global surge. That doesn’t happen if you’re full of hatred for them.

        They’re a dichotomy of amazing social progressivism and brutal conservatism.

        • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
          1717·
          3 hours ago

          I didn’t say there were no positives from America did I? I didn’t rank where America stands in how progressive or conservative America is.

          I said America is full of hatred towards Minorities with no comparison to another place.

          I am not wrong. There is too much of it.

          So “come off” what exactly?

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            153·
            3 hours ago

            Decep is right.

            Not from America. America is full of hatred towards minorities.

            You’re basically implying the bad outweighs the good to the point that it won’t give them any ideas.

            The bad may be very amplified now, but I think the TikTok crowd in particular and US history skews towards “majority good”

            • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
              26·
              3 hours ago

              I didn’t imply that. Stating that there is too much hatred of minorities doesn’t mean that America fails at everything. That is a stretch. Me pointing out that America has a lot of hatred towards minorities isn’t a reflection of everything America does as a whole is inherently bad.

              I didn’t say that America can’t have a good influence on another country. America isn’t one to look to especially now for how minorities are treated.

          • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
            72·
            3 hours ago

            I said America is full of hatred towards Minorities with no comparison to another place. I am not wrong.

            But you are wrong. The US doesn’t hate its minorities in general. The US hates the poor in specific.

            • Gay billionaire
            • Black billionaire
            • Hispanic billionaire
            • Muslim billionaire
            • Female billionaire

            The same goes if you replace “billionaire” with “poor”. If you are rich, you are welcome. That’s your only qualifier. If you are poor, you are trash. That is your only qualifier.

            • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
              1·
              57 minutes ago

              I don’t think that’s entirely true and Thiel will learn that lesson sooner or later. Arguably already has as he was rumored to have been pissed about all the anti-trans rhetoric and throttled spending, which is why Elon had to step up and shell out.

              Now Musk is in the driver seat with a grudge he hasn’t paid back from PayPal and Thiel’s in danger of finding out after fucking around.

            • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
              31·
              2 hours ago

              When I say America I mean the people of America. There are large numbers of folks, regardless of why they do, hate minorities.

              I didn’t say the wealthy “elite” weren’t the cause of a lot of the divide. They absolutely are. No such thing as an ethical billionaire.

              I’m not disagreeing with you on the fact that your financial status isn’t what really separates us. What I am saying is there is still too much hate towards minorities. That doesn’t change that the wealthy are a problem.

              You’re taking two separate ideas and merging them into one “truth.”

              They ate two separate topics. Just because the wealthy are guilty of the bad they are doing doesn’t take away the fact that there is too much hate towards minorities in America from the people that live here.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 hours ago

            You singled it out. Which was incorrect. Hatred of minorities is common in every culture on every continent of the Earth. It’s a basic human nature thing. And America isn’t special in that respect. Hell when you get into large monocultures like China Etc the racism and hatred of minorities gets even more extreme and specific. In fact a lot of those hatreds have been imported from all over. The Koreans hatred of the japanese. The Japanese is hatred of the Chinese and vice versa. Various Indian sects hatred of each other. And the colorful bigotry of Europe and the Mediterranean. But one thing it is also produced here in America that is a little less common than elsewhere. Are people that actually are much more tolerant and supportive of minorities. Unfortunately they’re not the ones in control but they do exist.

            • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              2 hours ago

              Singling out a problem that exists in a country I am very familiar with is a non problem. I didn’t state it was special to America. I didn’t speak on any other nation and their hatred of minorities. I didn’t even state anything about it being part of “human nature.”

              I spoke on being familiar with the fact that it is a problem in America.