Posted on 01/17/2025 10:34:08 AM PST by EBH
With the TikTok ban looming in less than a week, creators are scrambling to find a replacement. Many have simply migrated over to TikTok’s direct American competitors, like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. But another unlikely challenger has emerged: the Chinese-owned Xiaohongshu, a social media app often referred to as Red Note in English.
While Red Note had previously catered almost exclusively to Chinese audiences, Americans are flooding onto the platform this week, making it the number one on the App Store for two days straight. Lemon8, a separate Chinese social media app owned by TikTok’s owner ByteDance, sits at number two. On those apps, Chinese influencers and fashionistas appear in between American newcomers showing off their woodworking or floating down the Mississippi River.
It is unlikely Americans will settle on Red Note or Lemon8 long term: They face the same regulatory pressures that TikTok does. But these apps’ ascendance does reveal an acute desire from Americans to find their next social media destination; their general wariness about TikTok’s top American competitors; and their discontent with a ban that many see as paternalistic.
“It was a bit of a spite thing—and I also wanted to be one of the first people over there,” says Christina Shuler, an entrepreneur who runs the small business Glam Farmhouse and joined Red Note this week. “Hopefully I can be part of the crowd that maybe can change how our government views this whole situation.”
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Shuler says that her posts on Red Note are already performing better than those on the Meta platforms Instagram and Facebook. “Unless you pay Meta to promote your posts, they’re not really going to show it to people—so I’ve seen a significant drop in engagement on both of those platforms,” she says. “And Facebook is just a bunch of angry people on there. So it was refreshing to get on Red Note and know that my content was appreciated.”
NO Chinese apps!
Communist China persecutes Christians, and all who support and use commie apps aid and abet them!
They will continue to go to those apps because their content gets show for FREE. The other platforms you have to pay to play on them as a “brand.”
damn people are dumb. SMH
Are they dumb or is the issue the American platforms?
Most of the stuff Walmart sells comes from COSCO. Isn't that "aiding and abetting" China? And their self-checkout kiosks spy on you by taking your picture and collecting your credit card info.
Shouldn't Walmart be banned, too?
The Chinese government can affect you far less by having your info and tracking you than the US government can.
Well that sure sounds like a smart idear! OnE chi-nuh app for a different chi-nuh app. DOH!
Are you serious.
The CCP already spies and terrorizing people here .
NYC allows them to have a ccp police force .
TikTokers Chinas amusement channel for how to get people to do stupid tricks.
National security is of no consequence to these knownothings - there was once a political party by that name - perhaps its time for a revival. Its all about them. They will not go far, once their beloved Chinese take over the US.
Yes. The CCP is going to kick your door down at 3am with 20 armored agents because you called Xi, Winnie the Pooh on TikTok.
Go soak your head idiot.
All our greedy domestic domains and platforms are collecting and selling our data to China already anyhow. If So they will just go get it from a a domestic traitor. If you don’t want China to get this data then you will have to just shut down the whole internet in the U.S.
That is a fact...
Wrong. This is the 21st Century version of the "Boston Tea Party".
I'm glad that Gen Z is finding out the truth about our government.
They'll learn not to be WOKE. Instead, they'll be patriotic and fight for our liberties.
All our greedy domestic domains and platforms are collecting and selling our data to China already
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Any citation/reference or is this just your opinion?
I am not going to believe you are not familiar with all the hidden 3rd party spy scripts we are being hit with on almost every domain on the WWW we land on.
This data collected is all up for sale to anyone who will give them a buck or two including our government, other governments including China, Russia, and any other business who wants to buy it. It is all for sale to anyone who wants to buy it.
And you absolutely know the Chinese government is buying the hell out of it... It is a no brainer... All in the name of the deceptive “For marketing purposes”. We are getting raped by the industry and we are letting them do it in the “spirit of business marketing”.
This practice needs to stop... It is a matter of National Security in whole.
As a post to Facebook that honors and cherishes Christianity? Lol
Why would I be familiar? Send a reference or go away.
Fake News ... check out this video that shows how REDnote actually looks to the end user. Do you speak Chinese? If not, you’re SOL.
https://x.com/Relaxed_Styles/status/1880353806191620148
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