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1. James Renken (jrenken@mastodon.sandwich.net)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 14:02:50 UTC James Renken

   • P Stewart

   A fun little success with multi-cultural/lingual moderation:

   I was reviewing a trending hashtag: "长毛象安利大会". My instance lists trending hashtags only after mod review.

   Google Translate said "Mammoth Amway Conference." Clearly "mammoth" is "Mastodon," but is this actually Amway? I wouldn't allow MLM to trend.

   The posts didn't look like literal Amway. I have ~zero Chinese cultural/language competence. Time to ask friends.

   @pstewart guessed it might be shorthand for "pitch something to us..."

   • Jasmine (alonetogether@mastodon.sandwich.net)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 14:02:50 UTC Jasmine

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     @jrenken

     “卖安利”means strongly recommending sth in mandarin. And “大会” means a big meeting or a event

     Because a main sns platform in china called Weibo recently starts to show its users’ ip in public without permission and users can’t cancel that. Then a lot of users decided to leave Weibo, and we seize the chance to “卖安利” recommend mastodon to them XD

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