As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time
As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, has been hiring for a surprising position in recent days: English-language content moderators.
In a separate post, a male user expressed frustration after RedNote censored a photo of his upper body. “Why can’t I post photos of my fitness and abs?” he asked, adding he had “never had such a problem on TikTok and Instagram.”
A Chinese user suggested that he try covering his nipples, as Chinese social media platforms generally impose restrictions on displaying them when it is perceived as sexually suggestive.
Oof ouch my male privilege
Oof I’m glad to see we are learning the right lessons from this.
Sure, the problem is, that male nipples are allowed in the West, not the other way round...
Meh, that's just a cultural difference
surprised pikachu face
Really because I’m also seeing that LGBTQIA+ posting on rednote is accepted so which is it guys? Let’s find out
They're scrambling to hire more mods, especially for english rn, so I wouldn't pass judgement yet
There's tons of it, even in Chinese so I call bullshit
Same, these media outlets post pure trash just to get people to view them.
LGBT content on rednote is usually posted with #le and #wlw, as far as I heard.
Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh and see what that gets you.
China is very accepting of LGBTQ. They welcome LGBTQ themes in their movies and media.
Tiktok....we got Loops. Just sign up!
@werefreeatlast @morrowind there is a fedi tictoc equivalent?
Loops isn't as good and xiahongshu is fun in a seperate way than tiktok
I love how separately fun you must be.
I can talk about Palestine without having my comments removed or shadowbanned. US social media is run by Zionists.
tool
TikTok was banned because of Zionist lobbying to censor pro Palestinian content.
US Social media platforms like Meta have been aggressively censoring Palestinian content.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-censorship-devastating-palestinian-news-sources
Jonathan Greenblatt. ADL director gave it away last year in a leaked recording when he said "we have a TikTok problem".
https://youtube.com/shorts/0f4cbLic3aA?si=uvk6cBVqPksRScBU
Here he is being even more explicit:
https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1878466080840065193?t=Dn0e4zeJyptwcGL7pmpM0Q&s=19
I smell the same flavour of bullshit about RedNote that I do/did about Bluesky. The articles are so obviously Astro turfing.
Twitter and all its alternatives always tend to get inflated coverage because twitter was essentially the journalists' app, so they write about it more. Bluesky was the first "real" alternative I guess.
Bluesky is "fine" if what you want is Twitter without [as much] fascism. It's a better user experience than Mastodon. The average user doesn't care about federation and all the rough edges where you have to understand technical details in order to understand what's going on is frustrating for them.
I hope Mastodon learns some lessons from Bluesky (curated follow/block lists, and curated feed algorithms) but I still hope federation is the future. Bluesky will eventually enshittify because it has financial backers who want a return and could give a fuck about uses or ethics. But for the time being it's a good platform, and perhaps more importantly the best shot at breaking Twitter, and I will strategically support it while it remains a good alternative.
Rednote I have no idea about. Not happy about Chinese propaganda and censorship, but not any happier about right-wing American propaganda and censorship, so fuck it. I haven't made an account yet but I might at some point. TikTok was by far the best algorithm at delivering what I want to see in the moment, and as I only spent a handful of minutes a day on TikTok on average, that's really valuable.
Insta is useless as you seem to have to curate your feed to only be a single thing. Plus, fuck Meta in the ear. So if Rednote gets the content creators and the algorithm, I'll probably check it out eventually.
social media users calling themselves refugees and colonizing an app used by chinese and chinese americans just doesnt sit well with me, especially since it will just lead to chinese americans getting segregated from mainland chinese or having it banned completely.
I wonder how many actually notice