chapotraphouse @hexbear.net NotLuigi [they/them] @hexbear.net 5 days ago

REDnote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书), #1 social app on the Apple App Store and #2 trending on Play Store, is now full of TikTok refugees and I’m one of them

Lots of interesting conversation happening over there

If anyone wants to follow me, shoot me a DM

Edit: there’s also a lot of jokes about TikTok refugees trying to connect with their “Chinese spy”

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Tiktok gets banned

everyone goes to a Chinese social media called "Little Red Book"
American politicians playing whack a mole with Chinese apps in a desperate attempt to make us use instagram instead is the funniest possible outcome I’m here for it
- God it's so fucking funny because it might even have worked a little bit, if Zucker didn't go on Joe Rogan and start all out pandering to MAGA culture war chuds.
  
  He is so detached from reality, he has no fucking clue what's going on. He saw Trump win and he thought homophobia and transphobia are back on the table, when the average normal person does not give a shit about LGBTQ+ people, they just to afford the basic necessities of living, and out of the downward spiral of status quo.
America taking the Great Firewall for granted is actually going to be very very funny.

A lot of Americans are about to find out very quickly that life in China is not anything like what they were told it’s like, and that the people of China actually like and support their government.
- leftists: "President Xi lower your firewall and let Chinese people flood the western 'net!"
  
  everyone: "actually let us in please the western net is terrible and we hate it"
  
  Funny how the tables turn
starting to feel like this ban is going to backfire big time
- Banning things that lead to blowback seems to be the US Empire's forte.
People are moving to REDnote? Wow... I didn't know that, I just, you're telling me that for the first time. /s

So, is it just another Instagram replacement with video? Are there creators from TikTok on the platform that you recognize? It's interesting to me that Lemon8 has been pushing its integration with Tiktok with this ban looming. My understanding is that Lemon8/Bytedance has even paid creators on TikTok to share Lemon8 and how to import your account and subscriptions to the platform. My understanding is this law potentially would prevent Lemon8 from operating in the US as well. It makes me wonder if Bytedance/TikTok know something we don't.

I opened up Google Play and lol these trending searches. It would appear people are looking for any available ship at the port.
- Are there creators from TikTok on the platform that you recognize?
  
  Nope. Almost all of the English language content I’ve seen is about being a TikTok refugee and attempting to make dialogue with Chinese users. There’s a lot of comradery and honest discussion, honestly. There’s also the occasional MAGA loser but those are generally reported and mocked from what I’m seeing.
  
  Edit: nevermind, CrutchesAndSpice is over there now doing an AMA about disability!
  
  Definitly going to give it a try.
- I opened up Google Play and lol these trending searches. It would appear people are looking for any available ship at the port.
  
  Any except American ones apparently lol
I just came across this on my fyp! Not Amerikan so don’t need to dl RedNote but I just might cuz a) my country might just ban TikTok too, were the biggest us simps there are, b) who knows what’ll happen to my TikTok w/o all the Amerikans, and c) it does look fun lol.

I do want there to be like genuinely magnitudes more people to transfer tho. Like, if the ban fucking goes through, let there be 50-100 million people on RedNote and not a single fucking person on IG or yt or whatever. Fuck them.
- Im British but got rednote too because like honestly, na I do not want tik tok to just be british, aussie, and EU. theres a lot of funny Americans
Downloaded RedNote, pretty entertaining so far
- So far do you find the content better in quality than TikTok?
  
  Hard to say. I have my TikTok feed set up pretty nicely; TikTok is far worse with a blank-slate algorithm than it could be with some tuning.
  
  Right now there is a ton of English content on RedNote which might not last past the initial wave. The UI is very similar but not exactly the same. I’ve also noticed a few videos that would never fly on TikTok. For example, I would never see casual transphobia on my TikTok feed, but I just saw a video that
  
  CW transphobia
  
  made fun of a trans man who said he was gay, saying “isn’t that just being straight?”
  
  so it actually makes me appreciate some of the rare social progress that American social media culture does embody. But on a better note, I’ve seen a lot of funny videos, a lot of super welcoming Chinese, and a lot of Chinese lesson videos. Oh and various thirst traps but what’s new lol.
  
  Looking forward to US news media reactions to the trend!
I saw someone post this lmao, their posting power is too much
- It's very funny how Trump memes confuse some of the TikTok libs.
The first video I opened was an AI modified video of Luigi as Chad
- I saw a pretty cute one of him as a Pokémon trainer choosing Breloom (still brandishing a handgun).
  
  post it here if you can find it. also I love breloom
One of my friends is worried that with all the Americans coming in, they might require XHS to split into domestic and international apps. Which would suck for the Chinese citizens who are working overseas, like them, who like the mix of stuff from home and from the international Chinese communities.
- I thought they were already split?
  
  According to my scrolling so far, only TikTok is split, and xhs is one big feed.
- Who is they, the CPC or the US? I assume the latter but
- Apparantly the CEO of the app said he welcomes the US tiktok refugees. So hopefully things will be cool
i’ve browsed xiaohongshu for a while now and i find this so funny lol
- I’ve browsed xiaohongshu for about 12 hours and I find it funny as well :)
- I keep getting videos of dongbei food and I'm quite tempted to get a train from Wuhan sometime this week.
  
  My feed seems to like showing me Guizhou food.
I downloaded
xiaohongshu has the juice
I'm in Poland so the TikTok ban won't affect me, but I'm there to keep in touch with some good yanks (rare breed) and see what the app's about (so far it's been good, it's a bit like TikTok but calmer and more comfy)
but in Tik Tok :

spoiler

https://www.tiktok.com/@but.not.all.men/photo/7458694931205426462

https://www.tiktok.com/@saadia___m/video/7459321599733402911

https://www.tiktok.com/@draftd0dger/video/7459291558093868318

https://www.tiktok.com/@marxxistcretin/video/7459240111503412526

https://www.tiktok.com/@kellysolstice/video/7459399559681264926

https://www.tiktok.com/@heal.out.loud/video/7459404319251778862
I have only one question: can you disable autoplay?
- Yes
I’ve been having a great time with it. It’s fun.
Am i dumb or is it hard as hell to find the 'create new account' button after downloading the app? It just wants me to login with already set up info?
- If you already have a WeChat you can just use that
anyone else having trouble signing up? my verification code never arrives
- same
Can you effectively learn Chinese on RedNote? Because my Duolingo is dead. I'm hoping this is an interactive form of language teaching.

Also, lmk if you learn Chinese off certain YouTube channels.
- There are a lot of Chinese lessons on there but I’m starting up Duolingo myself

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