- 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.
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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?
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?
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.
LOL