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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
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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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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Youtube and Instagram tried for years to lure in Tiktok users, and they failed so badly that even with Tiktok potentially getting banned, people would rather switch to a different potentially sketchy Chinese app.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That they specifically went to another sketchy app is what gets me the most.

I could name tons of social network alternatives that are decentralized, give users control but for some reason those are sidelined as everyone suddenly wants an account on app they never heard off a few weeks ago and its main selling feature is that is at least as insecure and censored as tiktok..

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's genuinely superior to tiktok though, the algo rewards like 1% of the ragebait, uncredited reposts, and deceptive posts that tiktok does. If they reverse the ban, I'm not going back.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Supposedly they're doing it on purpose as a protest. Not just one sketchy Chinese app, but any sketchy Chinese app they can find. In the hopes that Meta and Google will miss them, and the federal government will capitulate to stop them using those apps.

Because apparently they haven't read the bill in question and think banning these apps too will somehow be "unsustainable".

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ban Instagram, Discord and iOS first, anti-libre software.

They never will. This ban was never to help us.

They do not give a fuck about me or you!