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Rednote is a tankies wet dream. It felt like I was taken back to cold war propaganda times. Communism vs Capitalism. Luigi the peoples champion, to start the downfall of Capitalism. It's weird to me that anyone who thinks a small group of wealthy people that controls everything by whatever name is a good thing.

It's ironic to resist US government censorship

Censorship is for ideas. Nothing is being censored.

If your free speech is deathmetal at 5am through a giant 1000W speaker, you're not being censored.

Because a large percentage of Lemmy are tankies?

The thing I learned about China when I was on Twitter years ago is that it's how visible you are about it. There's a code of conduct that lets you say and do the thing even if you should get in real trouble for it. I followed a Chinese lesbian who was big in the 3d printing world, and she talked about how there's lesbian bars and her girlfriend, but she's married to a man in the same way that they used to do here in western countries. They call them a Face, and they're guys who are either gay or have some other arrangement with a lesbian so they can both satisfy the cultural/legal marriage expectations while living their own lives.

Not to say that it's all sunshine and rainbows over there. It's still pretty dystopian. She also talked about how she had been grabbed by the police, black bagged and thrown in an unmarked van to be held and interrogated multiple times. They couldnt do more than that, though, because she was really untouchable despite being open about a lesbian because of her popularity on Twitter. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of Western nations before the 80s or so when things like Don't Ask, Don't Tell were more codified in law.

Edit: I think I got my terms wrong and the guy is called a Beard, not a Face. Like you'd wear a fake beard to hide your face or something, I think.

I think they're going to relax a lot of the rules just like TikTok did.

It's just happened so fast they couldn't adjust in time.

Give it a week or two and they'll completely separate the US and Chinese userbases, with different standards for each.

Yeah I've given it a try and honestly I probably won't use it long term because well... It's all in Chinese and as cool as it would be to learn a new language (any language really) I don't have the time or energy to do that.

In my short experience there's a lot of lesbians on there, and "skin" gets shown quite a bit. I saw someone pole dancing in a jinx cosplay.

There's some cool things the app does I wish we had an English alternative, it's like tiktok combined with Pinterest? So there's better category sorting and you can save stuff in collections.

I also really have enjoyed the comments from Chinese people. It's really fun hearing their stories. I honestly sometimes forget, with how much we talk about China bad in America, that they're just people too? They're curious about our pets, they want to see what food we eat. Someone had hundreds of Chinese people try grilled cheese Sandwhiches.

Its a cultural exchange in the digital age that I've never seen before and honestly... I hope it sticks for that alone.

It’s bias but most of my coworkers who used TikTok have already switched over. We’ll see if it’s a trend or if they keep using it.

definitely not astroturfing, no sir, no influence campaign going on here, nothing unusual to see, please go back to consuming content without questioning who is pushing it or how or why

Bye tankie