- Xiaohongshu
- ~~Red Note~~
- Lemon8
Don't mind me, just writing a list of apps that are gonna get firewalled by the US because of national security in about 2 years.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Aren't Xiaohongshu and Rednote the same thing?
Yeah I just figured that out a little bit ago lol
Is Xiaohongshu and Rednote not 1 same app? Or is it also separated like TikTok and Douyin?
No it's the same. I thought they were 2 separate apps.
Taking a quick look at it and I really liked the interface and design, and a replacement for Instagram is sorely needed (and with all due respect, the FOSS community will never be able to compete in "photography social media").
I hope the surge in attention motivates them to either further internationalise the current app or do something like tiktok for the foreigners (as I can't read Chinese and would rather avoid so many English-only digital spaces).
I agree with you 100%. In plenty of countries, people will abandon US apps in a heartbeat as soon as their is a replacement available that is suitable.
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America is so free its people are leaving this freedom for "eVil Gommunism"
Despite their best efforts to paint China as the ultimate evil, people are still lining up to try their products. I feel like that says something.
I just downloaded it today. I’m not American so the ban doesn’t effect me (yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada follows suite) but I follow some awesome American creators and dont want to lose access to them so I followed them to Red Note.
I'm liking it so far, I do wish they'd give you a way to share stuff outside the app though.
Yeah, I went to check and the “copy link” function seems to only be for sharing in the app DMs. Hopefully they add a feature so we can share posts on here since they’re great. The cosplays are elite.
Really? I've used that function multiple times
I might be doing something wrong then because when I copied the link and put it into my search engine I got weird results. I’ll have to try again.
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the content is top notch :)
Installed it to help boost their numbers that much more!
It's making me sign up with either a phone number or a Google account ):
And you need to attach a phone number to comment anything. Are there any issues with using one of those temporary fake phone number generators?
It's just to make an account. It's not going to actually display your number. Just make a separate Google account and use that.
The Google account seems unnecessary if you're attaching a number bc you could just sign up using only the number.
Anyway, I think I'm going to stick with the account I made using a dud gmail address and cope with being unable to post or comment anything
ah I already had a wechat account so I signed in with that
That's not much better because you need either a Facebook account or a phone number (again) for that too ))):
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That's so out of the blue? Is there any particular reason why the app got viral in the US?
No idea what made it go viral. That said, I just signed up and I'm digging it, this was literally the first thing in my feed
This is the first thing I see opening the app
it's just so wholesome :)
It remains to be seen for how long. Libs will be freaking out when they find an intersection of Chinese users on political posts like the Ukraine-Russia war in the host app they’re going to as 'refugees.' Their bubble will be burst badly when people disagree with them. Also, I followed the 'reading' interest, and there's a lot of Mao and the Red Book there. Americans will freak out over "genocider" worship in a Chinese TikTok alternative. This app will probably separate global servers from China servers to avoid that, like TikTok, if it wants to replace TikTok
Just wait until they ask about the Uyghurs.
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Is that a Lenin model kit or just a figure!?
Idk about the Lenin one, the sickle and hammer is a model kit. Link https://xhslink.com/a/SPKllNtXQyF3
Damn, I was browsing Hexbear and I'm tempted to install the app now. I'm kinda expecting for it to be a huge time sink considering how much I use Lemmy and Telegram on my phone lmao
TikTok is getting banned in the US so a bunch of users are going to Xiaohongshu instead. It’s basically to spite the American government.
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So what is that app? Tiktok clone? Cause it's not douyin right?
It's Chinese Instagram, much better than BS Meta product.
So it’s instagram without the soft core porn of under age girls
Yes. The moderation team of XHS is great.
LOL