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Why is this the exact opposite of what I've been reading Lemmy users say about their experience? Especially the LGBTQ experience?
Yeah I've given it a try and honestly I probably won't use it long term because well... It's all in Chinese and as cool as it would be to learn a new language (any language really) I don't have the time or energy to do that.
In my short experience there's a lot of lesbians on there, and "skin" gets shown quite a bit. I saw someone pole dancing in a jinx cosplay.
There's some cool things the app does I wish we had an English alternative, it's like tiktok combined with Pinterest? So there's better category sorting and you can save stuff in collections.
I also really have enjoyed the comments from Chinese people. It's really fun hearing their stories. I honestly sometimes forget, with how much we talk about China bad in America, that they're just people too? They're curious about our pets, they want to see what food we eat. Someone had hundreds of Chinese people try grilled cheese Sandwhiches.
Its a cultural exchange in the digital age that I've never seen before and honestly... I hope it sticks for that alone.
Depending on how you view it you could install a translation extension/plugin.
I was thinking about checking out weibo now that I know the Chinese people have really been enjoying the interaction so I just installed a translation extension in Firefox and it seems to work really well. I haven't been able to get an account so I haven't tried to communicate yet, but I'd probably just use Google translate and write in English and then add the translation.
Tbh I just dunno what translation software to use?
Id like something that worked as a screen overlay/reader kinda thing?
Copy and pasting is an inconvenience.
I actually just lurk rn so it's not too big of a deal but yeah.