With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24242302
How can people be so fucking stupid????
Some users are just petty. Ban TikTok for data sharing fears, then switch to another Chinese app out of spite.
For real I made a post about it on videos@shitbear and everyone lost their shit def a Chinese community good riddance!
Other Chinese app?
pettiness and revenge appear to be enough to motivate people to learn how to navigate Xiaohongshu, an app that is overwhelmingly used by Chinese-speaking people and was not designed with English-speaking users in mind. “I have no idea what I’m doing here. I can’t even read the rules,” one TikTok refugee who goes by “Elle belle” said in a post on the app.
Emphasis mine. The article does not say how many users 'flee' to this app, and it would be interested to know how many of them are some sort of influencers (or even bots) to create a hype. But I am sure there are many who flock to whatever new app they can get their hands on, no matter how toxic it may be.
Addition: Once Tiktok is sold to Elon Musk, the 'problem' may be solved anyway, right?
The BBC spoke to someone who acquired a large following shortly after signing up.
Some social media users tell the BBC that they find themselves scrolling on RedNote more than TikTok. "Even if TikTok does stay I will continue to use my platform I've created on RedNote," Tennessee tech worker Sydney Crawley told the BBC. Ms Crawley said she got over 6,000 followers within 24 hours of creating her RedNote account. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo
The Guardian says over 500,000. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/tiktok-ban-rednote-app
How much of this growth is organic?
Addition: TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well
TLDR: Many got banned as they appear to have violated the platform's rules (because they can't read the terms).
People are using a CCP mouthpiece that is openly using a name referring to Mao Zedong's "little red book", and that is supposedly even worse than Tiktok. The only thing that is more worrying is the media believing such a hype. This is completely artificial imo.
Oh my god, this made me laugh!
the majority of the content on the platform is photo slideshows coupled with text, which is why people often view it more as a competitor to Instagram than TikTok.
Which is super ironic given that instagram changed everything to push short video content and compete with tiktok
Haha nice!
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.
then why tf did you use tiktok
TikTok is owned by ByteDance. Mark Zuckerberg does not own ByteDance
Don't they do the same things? In fact TikTok spies more stuff, but they just don't sell it to private entities as much.