instagram/pinterest-ish chinese app that was promoted on american tiktok as a possible alternative after ban. it has actual chinese users and they weren’t impressed when american transplants wanted everyone to speak english
I don’t condone this manner of speech with people. However…
Literal lols. 🤣
What if their mother truly was a slut and she’s just speaking truth?
We already know she’s had unprotected sex.
Isn’t this a screenshot from Twitter/X?! So - probably a bot.
I’m not American, but downloaded RedNote (Little Red Book) to see what the fuss was about and it’s been a charming experience. I’m particularly loving the cooking videos!
Very very interesting to see normal Americans and normal Chinese people have discussions together on a social media app. And for them to show each other “slice of life” videos. Probably the first time that this has ever happened?
Utterly hilarious situation, tbh.
I did too, but charming was not how I would have described my experience. But interesting that was your take. My experience was confusion and a lot of Chinese women in poses or outfits that were clearly trying to titillate, and then 90% of everything was just images, and no easy way to move between things. I gave it an honest try, but if rather do democratic socialism locally than agree to be a communist in a ToS
Example from me opening the app right now and getting the default feed:
Whoa! No that’s not what I got at all! And if you click into what looks like a still image you’re suddenly in a feed of videos. Who knows what their UX is doing.
Now that tiktok may be banned in the US a lot of people are moving to the next Chinese social network.
If they can’t use one service that the Chinese government can use to spy on you then they’re going to use another service that the Chinese government can use to spy on you .
And they’re using those instead of the services that US corporations can use to spy on you
You’ve gotten a few answers already that explain what it is, but a lot of the discussion misses the “why” of the situation. There’s a strong anti-US government part to the whole situation that basically says “if you’re going to ban tiktok in the US because you’re afraid of China getting our data/controlling the algorithm then we’ll just join a social media site whose servers are actually in China!” It’s a big FU to the government.
Apparently it’s a Chinese TikTok alternative
What I don’t understand is why RedNote?
Has it been pushed and advertised by TikTok?
There are countless other established platforms. Not sure why.
It has indeed been pushed and advertised by TikTok. Or at least, within TikTok.
it’s been pushed on lemmy as well, but maybe indirectly. nobody of the people who push it seems to know why tiktok really gets banned or they are obfuscating it.
tiktok has(d) developed into a hivemind where tens of millions of people (or more?) can be a part of a discussion. This made it easy for trends to spread rapidly, such as deciding where to migrate with the impending tiktok ban. From my own experience on tiktok, the last few weeks there was much discussion of where to go, and it appears the hivemind settled on rednote.
To specially tell the government “fuck you” it was sought after because of it also being a Chinese app and it’s more of a deep state kind of app really regulated by the government. It’s name comes from some red notebook that dude running the country is often seen carrying.
Tiktok itself isn’t pushing it the creators are. Plenty of them getting banned though as the rules are strict.
Anything owned by major companies such as meta people don’t wanna be apart of. What they claim tiktok is doing they are doing worse
Basically, chinese Instagram, that a lot of people are joining in protest to the incoming TikTok ban.
Chinese Instagram. While people suspect tiktok is censored, this one is actually censored and possibly spyware. Dumb people are moving from tiktok to it to protest tiktok being banned
Its one of the few platforms where you can be anti Zionist and not being cancelled.
The new thing the kids flocked to because the adults found their old thing and started to join/ regulate it.
