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How long before the youth calls on China to invade and overthrow the Trump regime?

A GenXi color revolution. kelly

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What happened to migrating to Rednote?

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago

Rednote is fun. It's wildly more left leaning than alternatives which is honestly nice.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

same thing that happened to migrating to mastodon/bluesky/threads - it sucks and it's not the same

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

I liked Rednote better than TikTok while I used it. I liked actually being able to browse videos instead of being forced to infinity scroll. But I dropped off of both well before the ownership changes.

[–] thetaT@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i migrated to Mastodon way before the "big" migration because the experience is just genuinely better. same for Reddit->Hexbear

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

My experience was kinda funny. I went from Reddit to .world and saw people malding over hexbear and grad. At first I was like, ew, Chinese and Russian propaganda, and didn't like some of the dogpiling I saw. But then I saw some people calmly explaining their point of view, and realizing that it aligned with what I believed. I saw what (I think it was) Guevara said about socialism being a form of loving people. Then I came to hexbear and slowly got radicalized further and further.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

For me Mastodon is really more a migration from the blogosphere. Many of the blog I followed 10-15 years ago are on Mastodon but now you can talk to the bloggers in a more convenient way than comment sections. And you can follow that people from the comment sections too to see what they are up to.

Never liked Twitter much.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a great app to make some Chinese penpals.

But for me the reason to be on (western) social media was always to engage with western political discourse which is obviously not as predominant on the Chinese app.

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah when I briefly used it it felt very homey - connected with birders from China, South America, and Africa - and how cool we thought each others birds are doggirl-smart

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Legit felt like the first time I’d actually experienced the potential of the internet lol. Nerding out that we’d all seem the same species - harlequin duck. The one by me was really blown far south from its usual range, the other in northern china, and the other in southern Chile.

Thanks al gore for making this experience possible

[–] JDvecna@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

I've enjoyed my ~year on rednote

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don’t really get xhs. I’ve followed friends so I see their content sometimes, and a handful of Chinese bands and musicians so I get content specifically related to those (usually just pictures of pretty girls with said musicians), but I feel like the algorithm doesn’t work to diversify my feed with other stuff I might like to see. Just ends up with really bland experience and I’m not sure how to change that.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

Trump “saved” TikTok

[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

probably still happening