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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 63 points 1 day ago (21 children)

I've seen a bunch of companies claiming us users are flocking to them. I guess we shall see where users end up

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, this honestly sounds like a press release with made up "users". Definitely part of a marketing campaign.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everyone I followed on tiktok said they're going to Rednote, and my FYP on rednote is extremely active with tiktok refugees. It's also been the number 1 app on both apple and chrome for 3 days. The users are very real.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

That picture is amazing, lol.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (27 children)

Nah, I am on xiaohongshu. Its fucking crazy. Most of the mandarin speaking audience woke up to their app filled with english. There is a running joke on the site now about US citizens "colonizing" the app. It is silly and in good fun but I cannot stress enough how real the influx of users is. Some brits are even moving there because so many Americans they follow did. I have seen multiple chinese citizens have their account jump from a few hundred followers to 30k in an hour or two. I mean you can hop on and see for yourself, it is free. It has actually been really wholesome so far and I hope the vibes continue to be good.

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[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (46 children)

Replacing one Chinese Spyware app with another. Lmao, it's just so funny to me.

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (13 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"Nobody I want to follow is using it."

By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won't go where there aren't already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.

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