my number one qualm with little red book so far is there is no native translation like tiktok has. lots of google translate is necessary to get the social media to social :P

necessary disclaimer: fuck the CCP and all the real violence and repression they do. just want to give credit given where due, and so far here im just seeing a lot of assumptions with no evidence? so im gonna post what my experience is :) i welcome all to do the same

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well whoever said CCP will censor LGBT content doesn't know much about the CCP.

On the other hand try posting anything critical about the Chinese government...

[–] Batman@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm gay for tiananmen square.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 19 hours ago

weirdchamp but aight 🤨

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

i have to admit it is quite magnificent.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 11 points 23 hours ago

Out of every lesbian manwha I read all of them were Chinese

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 day ago (5 children)

From what I've seen, a lot of queer people are afraid to be themselves there. Some may even experience backlash and threats of violence for being LGBTQIA. There's a lot of hostility to us across that entire nation tbh.

On top of that, there is constant scrutiny with mass state surveillance. Queer and POC may be silenced or even face imprisonment for expressing themselves. And don't forget that nation's concentration camps, genocide, torture of political prisoners, and barring people who don't toe the party line from residency and citizenship.

Oh wait, that isn't Red Note. That's the USA and my small town.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 21 hours ago

Oh wait, that isn't Red Note. That's the USA and my small town.

Damn u got me at the first half ngl

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean…that’s both vampiric superpowers. China and the US.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's no such thing as a benevolent state, to be honest. Nations and borders only divide and subject us. Every day, I feel more sure that we need to build communities in spite of states and to do what we can to disrupt and abolish them, so thank you for mentioning this glaring example.

However, I will say when we in the US point at China, we've got three fingers pointing back at us. Pretty hypocritical of us, and largely racist.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I meeaannn… of course the US has an imperial bone to pick with the other imperial nations. So the same attitude and conditioning to “other” the competing nations applies equally to Russia and china. So I think I have to disagree on your point that there is inherent racism in the china conditioning. Does racism get borne out of the antagonistic relationship? Of course. But everything said about china is said equally (at least in spirit) about Russia.

And you’re absolutely right, there is no benevolent state. A state’s first and only goal is to sustain itself and secondly to increase is standing. And I’m def with you that we need to not let borders come between the global working class.

My whole point is there is a tendency on the more communist-leaning left to reverse the conditioning by just swinging all the way to the other side. “The US is bad, china/Russia is better.” They’re both equally imperialist, they’re both equally exploitative, and they’re both equally heinous. It’s absolutely a mistake “western” leftists make to embrace the other superpowers in an attempt to denigrate their own. It’s necessary to remove that lens when we discuss these kinds of issues to see the entire picture, because swinging to the other superpower nations and embracing them as better is such a limiting (and incorrect) way to think about it. It’s a simplified first step in realizing your home nation is wrong. Going against them for being wrong should not mean embracing their equally wrong counterparts.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, the US is pretty substantially worse than China, by almost any metric.

And if you think it's not a racial issue with China, I think you have some investigating to do. You obviously haven't spent time on mainstream White Supremacist platforms such as reddit, Facebook, or the comments threads on any mainstream news article. Oh wait, I also see it here on Lemmy. There's a constant othering of Chinese people in a way there's not of people in Russia. (I even find it curious that Russia seems to appear out of nowhere in any conversation about China for no apparent reason, hmmmm.... now why is that?)

That's why Xiaohongshu/Red Note has been so illuminating for people. It's been nice for me. Answering questions about each other's languages and judiciously sharing pictures and videos has been cool, but I already know and talk to people from China, and my dad taught social studies. For many people, this is their first realization that we've been fed racist propaganda all our lives.

Now yes, people could react by romanticizing the state of China itself, after seeing the many ways in which it is better than the USA, but they will learn. And I hope the most important lesson they learn is that, as you said, states are made-up tools of the oppressors that only exist to divide and subject, to protect the state for the state's sake, at our expense. Always at our expense.

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[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are these posts ads?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Yes I am being payed by the CCP to promote lesbianism

(sarcasm. the CCP is hatefully repressive to queer identities.)

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How do I sign up for that. I’d like to get paid!

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 21 hours ago

I’m not sure it just kind of started happening

[–] bigschnitz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Suggesting that the CCP is open to letting lesbians live their life seems pretty surreal after what happened to Naomi Wu. It's shocking how quickly the dust settled on that.

Though to anyone trying to encourage discontent to westerners with socially liberal beliefs, it's a pretty helpful narrative to push.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

The level of shortsightedness in people is astounding to me again and again. History really seems to always repeat. When will people ever learn that there is no company in the world that is their friend.

"Oh, but it looks fine and i havent had any issue" says the little user that is currently feeding the networking effect of the next platform, that will inevitably fail in exactly the same way as every other for profit social media.

"Oh, but everyone is here and i dont wanna switch again" says the little user that now has the choice between losing all their feeds and follows or staying on a platform slowly being squeezed for money or political incentives.

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[–] shani66@ani.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"b-b-but corporation bad!"

No shit people, corporations are badbut some are worse and some are better. Not that that is even the topic of discussion, this is clearly about spaces people exist in.

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[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

how else are they supposed to do it?

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cringe app

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cringe everything

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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Is LGBTQ+ content not restricted/shadow banned there? 31 hearts and 1 comment isn't really a lot.

If Twitter took away the restricted flag, would anyone have known typing "cisgender" is blacklisted? Most corporate social media don't publish what is or isn't restricted.

Plus China officially encourages """"traditional"""" gender roles since their demographic crisis will come crashing down soon, with LGBTQ+ centers and clubs being shut down by the government.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 59 minutes ago

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