With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
AI summary of the linked articleThousands of TikTok users have moved to Xiaohongshu, the Chinese app whose name means "little red book," as a US Supreme Court decision on a law that could ban TikTok looms. As of Monday, Xiaohongshu was the top free app in Apple's US App Store, and the article reports that some newcomers say they joined to spite the US government's ban. Some users say they hope to rebuild their TikTok communities, while the app, which reportedly had over 300 million users and over $1 billion in 2024 profits, is also drawing curiosity from Chinese users, including David Yang, who said about a quarter of his feed was from TikTok refugees. |
3 comments mishaSubmitter fun fact RedNote, Xiaohongshu literally translates into ‘Little Red Book’ https://www.chinafy.com/china-tech/what-is-xiaohongshu-red-and-how-to-get-started#:~:text=Xiaohongshu literally,Amazon combined. obviously named after Mao’s little red book lol 📕 more interesting is that I initially got this fact from Wikipedia and just now someone revised it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xiaohongshu&diff=prev&oldid=1269302914 mishaSubmitter Haha exactly! I hear since there's no separate app US folks are meeting a lot of new Chinese frens undoing years of propaganda from both sides lol. Anyway haven't dared to install. It should be treated as spyware if on your phone I think, just like WeChat. Sandbox it on GrapheneOS if possible haha. |
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