• Engywuck
    link
    fedilink
    English
    568 hours ago

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

  • Optional
    link
    fedilink
    English
    257 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!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      85 hours ago

      You wouldn’t expect anyone named Mao to be political, so that checks out. His brothers Lenin and Stalin are equally apolitical.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    68
    edit-2
    9 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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      177 hours ago

      Oh gosh, I thought you meant .world World News for a minute there. Yeah the problem is .ml, they’re tankies.

    • [email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      739 hours ago

      .ml

      There’s your problem. If they stated their rules, rather than forcing people to figure them out by trial and error, I’d have less of an issue with it. Like, lemmygrad is explicit in its intent and they state it outright in their rules. Lemmy.ml plays it too coy, and so comes off as incredibly manipulative.

      • NaibofTabr
        link
        fedilink
        English
        308 hours ago

        You just broke the secret law!

        Typical fascist behavior.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        33 hours ago

        Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the [email protected] thread on it, for the same reason.

      • BombOmOm
        link
        fedilink
        English
        268 hours ago

        Those are other users’ comments. Not sure how those are relevant to JiveTurkey’s comments.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          107 hours ago

          I wouldn’t take it seriously, they gave me a month long instance ban for saying a federal representative democracy is by definition a type of democracy.

          “American propaganda” or something.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  22 hours ago

                  Uhhh yeah. The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  6
                  edit-2
                  3 hours ago

                  God, shut up nerd, like your red fascist bullshit and their one party elections were or are better. Do you want to hear that it’s a flawed system? It is. All states are and should be abolished.

                  Still a type of democracy, and still more democratic than anything Russia or China have ever managed.

  • Ben Matthews
    link
    fedilink
    English
    8
    edit-2
    6 hours 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 …?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        53
        edit-2
        9 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.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          32 hours ago

          This timeline? Where the US is nearly the last of any western nation to legalise gay marriage?

          And isn’t your country actively trying to work back any progress you’ve had in the last decade? Trans rights, queer rights, women’s rights, minority rights.

          Also isn’t it Americans who are pushing the most for anti-LGBT legislation in African countries?

          Canada is falling down the same hill when it comes to trans rights, and it hurts me, but I’m not out here saying that Canada is any sort of leader in the field. I recognise the issues my country has and I’m going to fight to fix them.

          Knock off the American exceptionalism for one second and deal with the problems your country has

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            6
            edit-2
            2 hours ago

            Mahatey, it’s not my fucking country or American exceptionalism because I’m not American eh?

            This timeline:

            And you’re a fucking idiot if you don’t think Canada is not one of the best places in the world for rights. Go take a holiday to 90% of the world and let me know how they treat women or queers.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1
              edit-2
              1 hour ago

              Didn’t realise you weren’t American, sorry for assuming. Admittedly I’m very jaded right now (and a bit drunk) with all the threats of invasion and with Americans either laughing it off or being all for it (and I recognise that’s not all Americans but it’s enough). Like, “haha, Canada will turn the USA blue!”

              And fine, yeah Canada is pretty up there for LGBT rights, but when one of the main platform points (imported from the USA!) from the Conservatives right now seems to be just straight up attacking trans people, it makes me pretty worried. I have multiple family members and a few friends who are trans or non binary and the rhetoric is scary.

              But TL;DR, not angry at you, just America(ns). I apologise to the good Americans, but your country is exporting a lot of bullshit right now. More than usual

        • Hellmo_luciferrari
          link
          fedilink
          English
          20
          edit-2
          9 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?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            22
            edit-2
            9 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
              link
              fedilink
              English
              48 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
            link
            fedilink
            English
            118 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.

            • Hellmo_luciferrari
              link
              fedilink
              English
              58 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.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1
              edit-2
              7 hours 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
          link
          fedilink
          English
          49 hours ago

          I didn’t compare to any place. I just stated America is filled with hatred towards minorities.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            128 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
              link
              fedilink
              English
              28 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.

    • sunzu2
      link
      fedilink
      118 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    158 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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      15
      edit-2
      8 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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        16 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          15 hours ago

          I was able to make my account immediately, just this morning. Not on Google Play yet though, had to download the apk manually.