...No, it's a social media app.
If you're referring to the title of the book, it's called "Quotations from Mao Tse-tung". "Little red book" is an English nickname and Chinese people don't call it that, so the app name would not be a reference.
From relevant Wikipedia page in Chinese: "因为最流行的版本用红色封面包装，文化大革命中通称「红宝书」
Which translates to: "Because the most popular version had a red cover, it was commonly known as the "Little Red Book" during the Cultural Revolution."
Edit: typo
It’s just insta and tiktok, it has no Maoist ideology lol
Nice try China!
If you think an app has a Maoist ideology because of its name being a reference then there’s no help for you…
You’re hosted on lemmy.selfhostcat.com, cat in Chinese is Mao. You nearly got away with it China 🕵️♂️
lol, that’s funny.
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It's an app like tiktok. Symbolically you can interpret it as representing anything you want, that's how symbolism works, but what it actually is is an app like tiktok.
I mean, the name is obviously inspired by the historical little red books.
The app is also literally called Little Red Book as an alternative name
What do you mean an alternative name? That’s it’s name
You should buy a copy of Mao's little red book though.
Buying a free book is the most capitalistic thing you can do. Here it is
https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/mao/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung.pdf
I'm old. And I like physical media. Sue me.
A PDF of Mao Zedong's little red book is the digital version of Mao Zedong's little red book.
Makes sense.
The law if not explicitly for TiKTok but every app with over a milion users.
Is red note like the death note for astroturfing?
I just wish i was more soc media savvy. Besides the language barrier, my experience is limited to places like lemmy/reddit and the learning curve for more it has me feelin like a time traveler, i don't know what any of this shit does, what following even means. Its fun though, what little i do get
Yes the American government tried to ban a book I can get for $6 on Amazon Prime. Why do people believe these things?
The American government doesn’t even ban books, that’s a (Southern) state government thing
*sort of, not really.
They may ban books from being stocked in school or public libraries, that's it, but they can do fuck all about the books being sold or disseminated freely by anyone else, anywhere else.
I would not be suprised when the US tries to ban that book
I don't think so.
But if it really has leftist ideology and good discussions in it, unlike the mostly centrist slighty left-ish discussions in social media like Reddit, that would be awesome.
Is it really so? Then I'd join it to see the discussions
It is leftist, in a way that's so much more casual and all-encompassing than I'm used to. Lemmy communities feel like little hidden leftist saloons in the wasteland, while the culture and friendliness on rednote feels more like what a whole society of people who share leftist values should feel like. It's immensely refreshing to just look at people's art projects without alo feeling like you have to be constantly prepared to do battle against a firehose of manufactured outrage, clickbait and smug dehumanization, like on basically any American social media I see these days. The cultural exchange itself is heartwarming beyond description, and I've seen tears on both sides of it.
Cool.Thank you.
Can people use it through android firefox? I tend to avoid apps, unless they are foss
I had tried to access the site, but didn't understand the interface. But have heard that the developers have added translation n all.
If someone has a link to get the site UI in English, could you please share it here. I couldn't find it on firefox android(I did try disabling ublock incase it was blocking stuff)
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