MoonElf [she/her, comrade/them]

I love it so much!

There’s a lot of content so you can browse whatever interests you. My feed is mostly girls (almost) kissing, street food being prepared, pets and interesting questions being discussed. Fashion dancing. There’s this bass guitar girl who is the coolest person i have ever seen she’s like a character from a movie. I have found many queer and transgender people there which makes me feel very welcome. I haven’t received any guff from being openly trans there.

There are very few ads. What there is is influencer style product placement stuff easily avoided. I truly love this aspect.

There is almost no contention. The moderation is swift and heavy handed and if things aren’t kept light they get removed. I have seen serious topics like transgender rights being discussed but no arguing seems to be tolerated and no hate speech. There’s been a couple ‘transgender is a mental illness’ posts i saw before they were deleted but they were all by americans. I understand that political posts are removed.

The people are lovely and amazing. I have a post of my cat with 100 comments saying how cute she is and showing me their adorable cats. Everyone i interact with is very nice and positive and they seem to be genuinely caring. Most of them seem truly delighted that we are there. Some Chinese living abroad lament the anglicisation of what was for them a remote window back into China.

the interface is very usable. I use a translation app to write my replies but XHS added an inline translation button and you can long press some other text for translation so understanding things is generally easy. I take screen captures and my photo app translates any other on screen text.

You can’t use the shopping tab. Eventually you’re presented with a list of chinese cities to choose from and can’t input your own city.

big fat raise