[ncpa-cpl]

I came looking for this,

Is the Chinese instagram’s name, Little Red Book (小红书), related to Facebook’s Little Red Book, or just a coincidence?

[tivert]

> Is the Chinese instagram’s name, Little Red Book (小红书), related to Facebook’s Little Red Book, or just a coincidence?

I'd bet they're both related to Mao's Little Red Book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T...

You know, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," and stuff like that.

[riiii]

> political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

They say you shouldn't bring a knife to a gunfight. But this is the only time a flag might be useful in a gunfight.

[dluan]

lol, 小红书 as an idea was established way before facebook.

facebook was just trying to use an adbuster's style approach, but actually during that time there were tons of subversive messages, e.g. mckenzie wark's "hacker manifesto" was commonly read and discussed. that whole hacker-chic is what facebook and PG modeled their entire personality off of. even though they might not have cared about edgy communism back then, the GNU manifesto written 20 years even earlier (and lots of FOSS warriors) certainly did.

even back when facebook had their little print poster shop on their campus, a lot of hackers outside felt really grody seeing this anti-capitalist spirit co-opted by this financial behemoth. it was like every 2 weeks someone would know someone else's small startup get snapped up for $10s of millions here and there. it was like watching the air slowly get sucked out of a party.

[pyrale]

There’s another little red book which has ties to China and quite a bit more fame.