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[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean they added a translate button in the last day or two, so I infer that at least the people running the site are OK with encouraging the sudden American popularity.

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 (1957?), remember how that trick evolved thereafter ...?

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

They recently added new translation features. I don't think it's going to happen.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just a few days after more than 700 million new users flooded RedNote…

A Beijing-based independent industry analyst, Liu Xingliang, told Reuters that RedNote was "caught unprepared" by the influx of users.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Go for it. I have my doubts that there is really any mass migration of English language users to an all Chinese website to begin with. The whole thing feels like a propaganda campaign.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Idk, I went on there earlier and watched some of the live interactions, there does seem to be a large amount of English speaking people who are messaging the live creators and the creators are responding in their best possible English.

It's actually quite nice to see two different cultures coming together.

But I'm sure that if they wall off the rest of China to the US users the app will lose its shine and people will move on somewhere else.

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[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Most of my lab mates are Chinese and I joined WeChat because it was what they all used. Everything was fine except my account kept getting banned for no reason. I had assumed it might be because I accidentally turned on a VPN, but ultimately I concluded it was because they didn’t want the intermingling of Chinese and American accounts, which was literally the only reason I was there in the first place.

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[–] Laitinlok@lemmy.laitinlok.com 5 points 1 week ago
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