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

A GenXi color revolution. kelly

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    Every leftist post I see now has like 20 likes. I’m not even joking. Similar posts that would have been shown to me just days ago would have all had thousands of likes.

    They’re not just suppressing left wing content, these are accounts that never had many likes to begin with, what they’re doing is showing the left wing people lower quality left wing content in order to get the left wing user base to stop hitting “like” on left wing content. The intent of this is to shift their content habits away from left wing content and into just about anything else. If they stop liking left wing posts because they’re only being shown the low quality ones, their feeds will gradually change away from left wing content and into other stuff.

    It is guided liking, they are essentially training the userbase out of its interest in good quality left wing content. These tech people see the userbase as animals to be trained like dogs.

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        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.

        • CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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          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 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        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.

    • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      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.

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      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.

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      It was always “owned” by the Chinese Bytedance, but the operation was split with most of the global operation run from Singapore and the Chinese operation run separately for regulation/censorship compliance. Now the US arm is also run separately for regulation/censorship compliance, but instead of getting the “no glorifying being rich” stuff we’re getting “no talking about left of goebbels politics”.

      • Commiechameleon [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        O… I haven’t been back on tik tok in a min, it was my lil rednote before rednote. But I was on briefly after it was turned off and on again and it WAS relatively similar. Mostly getting left wing takes and hasanabi clips. So idk what it’s been turned into now. Will it flag anything like red sun in the sky, trotsky =lib, or hot maoists in my area?

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    not that it’ll ever happen, but the US effectively doing an accidental color revolution on themselves by agitating their youth would be extremely funny.