I don’t think people should go into the app with the assumption every Chinese person is a die-hard leftist comrade like them.
They are just people, people from a nominally communist country, but people none the less.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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I joined yesterday and there were so many pictures of Luigi. He seems to have a lot more life as a meme in china than he does here.
No we will not give you communism 
now please provide the pussy pics
Well, this is the stated attitude anyway. But then people seem to be openly discussing politics just fine?
I just joined yesterday so if there’s more nuance to this please fill me in. But this seems to be the attitude.
I saw someone post a picture of an old copy of Quotations and talk about being a communist and the response was overwhelmingly positive, but there was one person who asked for no politics discussion.
EDIT: and one asshole who tried to make a comment about imperialism against "taiwan" but I reported his ass
From what I understand red note is like kinda the bougie app for rich kids or something so I guess it makes sense
Is there an app for the proles?
Yeah I think so, I’ve seen people mention it but I’ve forgotten the name sorry
what are some example of common discourse considered "divisive" on Little Red Book?
Palestine is one example. A lot of the TikTok crowd are gungho free palestiners and that is not the general vibe on xhs
Well that's not very good then is it
Obviously not. You take the good with the bad just like every social media; yes bad that political discussions like Palestine aren’t present. Good that discussions about jobs, healthcare, language learning, and socialism with Chinese characteristics are.
Yeah fair, but cmon it's genocide it makes me sad they also don't care
In the little discourse I’ve seen, people support Palestine and oppose the genocide, it’s just not the app for that (yet? There’s been a huge uptick since yesterday) per the government. Definitely not defending it, just pointing out the benefits and downsides to the platform
that is not the general vibe on xhs
what's xhs?
Xiaohongshu, in English people call it RedNote or Little Red Book
Lazy American can’t type xiaohongshu
typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)
To be fair
I’ve already got the keyboard installed, I’m ready to go type 小红书 if I had to
Next language I'm learning is Mandarin just give me a year or two to really perfect my Spanish
So far, adding subtitles to videos and what language to type in. Not so much in a “hey you’re bad” sort of way as in a “hey this is important and everyone’s talking about it” sort of way