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.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah fair, but cmon it's genocide it makes me sad they also don't care

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that is not the general vibe on xhs

what's xhs?

[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Xiaohongshu, in English people call it RedNote or Little Red Book

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lazy American can’t type xiaohongshu

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

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)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve already got the keyboard installed, I’m ready to go type 小红书 if I had to

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

Next language I'm learning is Mandarin just give me a year or two to really perfect my Spanish