So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation - ThreadSky

caseynewton.bsky.social • 41 days ago

So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation

Reposted from Techmeme

A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain (Financial Times)

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semaleena.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes it’s fcking amazing, so kind, no hate, it’s a breath of fresh air, it’s also a great awakening for brainwashed Americans

doctorbluebird.bsky.social•40 days ago

As long as you don't post openly about the many censored topics including LGBTQ+ topics?

itismashagain.bsky.social•41 days ago

We have known all along that the app is called Little Red Book in Chinese. I’d rather use TikTok but old man Biden decided that TikTok was showing the kids too many images of his genocide in Gaza. So here we are.

thejrluna.bsky.social•41 days ago

To be fair, it wasn't just Biden. This whole thing started during the Trump administration when the pentagon recommended that its personnel delete the app from their phones.

itismashagain.bsky.social•41 days ago

Without Biden supporting the ban the legislation would not have passed. The entire administration was upset because Gaza videos were on TikTok and harming their coverup of the genocide.

I’m perfectly fine with TikTok not being on government devices. That makes good sense.

thejrluna.bsky.social•41 days ago

I'm not disagreeing with that. But to put 100% of the blame on Biden is factually incorrect. And it only helps Trump in this whole thing by minimizing his role in this whole thing

itismashagain.bsky.social•41 days ago

Wait till Trump removes the ban. All this was foreseeable. Biden lost the youth vote defending his genocide. It was one of the most politically boneheaded moves I’ve ever seen in my life.

lionoflithuania.bsky.social•41 days ago

Who's the president right now ... when TikTok is deciding to self shutdown?

Is Trump in the room with you right now .?

thejrluna.bsky.social•41 days ago

Is it that hard to understand that both of them are responsible? It's really not that hard to comprehend. This didn't happen overnight. It's been on the table for 4+ years.

electricmyszka.bsky.social•41 days ago

I love how Americans don’t ask why tik tok was so happy to show you Gaza. Guess Americans got the president they deserve.

itismashagain.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes we Muslims are so stupid we don’t understand that we should not see images of genocide, amirite?

bennyfactor.bsky.social•41 days ago

LMBO let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred Posters contend, Casey https://bsky.app/profile/bennyfactor.bsky.social/post/3lfr2vvyrhc26

neuroemergent.bsky.social•41 days ago

;)

scrivener45.bsky.social•41 days ago

Retarded

dopeface.bsky.social•41 days ago

The "protest" was to intentionally hand data to the Chinese communist party to do exactly what the government said they didn't want to happen. It wasn't to see grocery prices or find friends. Was this not common knowledge?

dopeface.bsky.social•41 days ago

this will backfire.. trump looks up to china's communist/dictator ways, and this will only push more people to accept his authoritarianism.. the left ignoring china's dictatorship for low-priced eggs isn't a great start to this presidency. The left and right slowly merging towards authoritarianism.

dopeface.bsky.social•40 days ago

I did get a good laugh out of it, though. This shitshow is very entertaining

patattat.bsky.social•41 days ago

No you don’t understand, TikTok was a bastion on free speech in America, that’s why the users are migrating to a Chinese government owned platform next.

Because of freedom. 🤦‍♀️

cheriebarrow.bsky.social•41 days ago

We don’t care after seeing how the people in China live much better lives than the average American we are now learning Mandarin . Does China have an app for American women looking for love?

tcarmody.bsky.social•41 days ago

and it's not based on Mao but on… Stanford and Bain? dang I thought I understood it before

usa1776.bsky.social•41 days ago

Democrats don’t understand what communism really is by the way Trump said he going to try to push back the Tik Tok banned 90 days when he get into the White House

electricmyszka.bsky.social•41 days ago

Tik Tok as you know it is gone. Trump only wants it back so he can turn into his personal propaganda platform. tik Tok and social media only exist because of globalisation and an era where we were all friends. That’s over now. Social media as we know it will soon be gone.

austinj.bsky.social•41 days ago

I love that the founder claims it's a coincidence

I'm gonna name my app Boston Tea Party because I liked drinking tea in Boston

semaleena.bsky.social•41 days ago

Have you used it?? It’s remarkable, never seen so much positivity

goldman.blue•41 days ago

I met my wife in a Cultural Revolution struggle session

chandlernguyen.com•41 days ago

Xiaohongshu as a community has been popular in China for a long time. You can check out Tech Buzz China English episode about them here https://www.techbuzzchina.com/podcast/ep-31-alibaba-and-the-little-red-book-xiaohongshu-powering-ecommerce-with-content this episode was before Covid

chandlernguyen.com•41 days ago

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Scc8CvekH6XcYsOt97jvR?si=x4cz3v6HQ_uqWwKnlS5DLg

edsander.bsky.social•41 days ago

Thanks for sharing. We also did an extensive report on XHS in 2023:
https://techbuzzchina.substack.com/p/the-rebirth-of-xiaohongshu

chandlernguyen.com•41 days ago

I didn't know that you are also on Blue Sky Ed!

edsander.bsky.social•41 days ago

Since a few weeks.

momojes.bsky.social•41 days ago

It was those stanford boys all along!!

somewhatpointless.bsky.social•41 days ago

glolovesbooks.bsky.social•41 days ago

It’s a fun little app that Congress is now voting on to block as well. Cuz… CHINA! 🙄🙄🙄

savvymegs.bsky.social•41 days ago

This was pretty well known

alexfortin.bsky.social•41 days ago

The irony. Americans flocked to a communist owned app because the government banned a privately owned app. Hell must’ve frozen over b/c Marco Rubio disagreed with the ban! He said on Fox it’s a privately owned company and 20% of it is owned by American workers. An employee owned private company

jakehalloran.bsky.social•41 days ago

yeah xiao = small, hong = red, shu = book

that said amusingly mao's book in china is "红宝书" or red treasure book, little red book doesnt have the same meaning colloquially in china... but the founder is a stanford GSB grad and knew exactly what he was doing

firelightlove.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is false information. Mao's book has a different name

davemdub.bsky.social•41 days ago

Anything but Facebook

bboogeyxl.bsky.social•41 days ago

we really showed them 🙄

lashleywilson.bsky.social•41 days ago

Did anyone try unplugging and replugging in reality?

pellat.bsky.social•41 days ago

Should be ok to use as long as Trump has no stake on that app

ty406.bsky.social•41 days ago

If opening a McDonald’s in red square was the victory of capitalism over the Soviet Union, then what does millions of American teenagers voluntarily downloading Mao’s Little Red Book mean for us now? 😂

semaleena.bsky.social•41 days ago

It’s the great awakening & it’s amazing

sneezy1969.bsky.social•41 days ago

Not just teenagers. And yes. We knew what "little Red book" meant. We also know what this theater surrounding a social media app means. Maybe we wanted to try a new flavor of propaganda.

lexical-lushes.bsky.social•41 days ago

literally who cares what it's called? the moce to rednote was explicitly done as a form of protest against the obvious hypocrisy and double standard behind the tiktok ban being done for "data security" reasons, hiven the track record of american platforms.

andy-says.bsky.social•41 days ago

Reboot? I think this is the most interesting outcome considering all the other events of the last several years

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