Man why is this subreddit full of anti-Xiaohongshu posts suddenly

The app may be Chinese owned but its not some chinese propaganda company. Its just full of normal everyday people showing off their lives, from their pets to them cooking to showing off where they live to dancing trends to cosplay, etc. Hell from what ive heard the app was founded with empowering women as the original intention, and tbh ive seen a lot of strong & powerful women so far, so many of them speak english too. (obviously a lot dont too, but thats just how my explore page is so far)

Obviously it being china based there are certain things that are against the rules there vs american owned places, like im pretty sure its against the rules to discuss politics (idk for sure tho, since i did see a chinese guy say "fuck the chinese government" on there, its also possible its more of a cultural thing for the users rather then strictly being against the rules) and you basically have to follow chinese law when posting on it so you cant smoke weed on camera for example even if its legal where you live, but it has no where close to the amount of censorship some think, ive seen so many gays and shit on there for example

As for the data privacy issue, american companies are well known for selling your data to China, all us using this app does is cut out the middle man, it dosent actually change the dynamic, our data is being sold constantly on both the open and dark web, nothing we can do about it

And the upsides of this app far outweigh the downsides already listed, the upsides being that this app allows normal americans & normal chinese people to interact for really the first time for a lot of us, for the vast majority of new american users this is probably their first time really talking to an actual chinese person & seeing how they live. I feel like this app has the potential to give us far more of a mutual cultural understanding & do a lot of work in ending the current xenophobia streak America is on, and as a libertarian socialist I personally hate this fear we have of them as a people, both conscious and unconscious, unconscious xenophobia is likely part of why a lot of the people who hate on Xiaohongshu do so, not all but a lot

Anyway thats all i had to say, stop hating on Xiaohongshu, its a good app, you should try it