Source: over 700K new users joined Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, in just two days; Sensor Tower: the app's US downloads were up more than 200% YoY this week
New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok …
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Discussion
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@jeanchimera
@jeanchimera
on bluesky
All you people jumping to RedNote, that actually is The Red Book, i.e., the little book of Communism. Just as regulated, censored, spied on, and data-scraped as anything else the CCP has control over. [embedded post]
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@vpalepu
Vijay
on bluesky
TikTok getting banned so people are now learning Chinese to post on Rednote... that is one way to promote Chinese literacy and DAU for an American tech company. — techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/d...
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@rebeccawilliams.info
Rebecca Williams
on bluesky
I think it's a positive that users are willing to shift platforms in a coordinated fashion when the old ones don't serve them, the social media old guard has taken for granted that folks won't leave www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...
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@juniorhoncho
@juniorhoncho
on bluesky
Mark Zuckerberg watching more and more users choose Xiaohongshu over Instagram Reels and ordering the release of Slur Update Omega
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@jerryiannelli
Jerry Iannelli
on bluesky
Red Note is genuinely a blast, the cross-cultural exchange going on is one of the most wholesome things I've seen in years
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@junlper.beer
@junlper.beer
on bluesky
i don't think i'll ever get past americans being black pilled by the government into downloading a chinese app called red note referencing the little red book. that's so fucking awesome. chinese propaganda is so powerful they don't even have to do anything
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@nicolatyche
Nicola Tyche
on threads
My favorite things about RedNote (Xiaohongshu) so far: - Americans searching for each other like they just survived a shipwreck - Them welcoming us as “TikTok refugees” - Them teaching us how to swear in Mandarin (because you always learn that first in a language) - The cat tax …
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
on threads
On Xiaohongshu, searching “Hu Jintao” (the former President of China) yields no results whether in Chinese or English You'd also get an empty page if you search for “Xi Jinping”, unless you type it in Chinese
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@goodvibepolitik
James Ray
on x
My roommate downloaded Red Note (the Chinese version of Pinterest/Insta) like 6 hours ago and he's already saying “Big ups to Mao Zedong” we are witnessing a moment
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@zbowling
Zac Bowling
on x
This is the funniest thing to happen with the TikTok ban. TikTok refugees are flocking to an actual Chinese owned clone of TikTok called RedNote rather than use Meta or YouTube to the point it's #1 on the AppStore now. It's wild. Everyone is learning mandarin. Existing users are …
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@raewolff_
Rae
on x
One of my favorite things on RedNote so far is the Chinese also making fun of how Brits say “bottle of water” 😂 [image]
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@chen_yenhan
@chen_yenhan
on x
Red Note user from Jiangsu: “why do you get both weekend days off and not have to work overtime?” [image]
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@khamchanh
@khamchanh
on x
A simple comment section in XiaoHongShu / Red Note is undoing billions of dollars of CIA/American propaganda. [image]
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@gldivittorio
@gldivittorio
on x
Some beautiful cultural exchanges happening on Xiaohongshu [image]
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r/NewsWithJingjing
r
on reddit
Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
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r/Hasan_Piker
r
on reddit
Duolingo sees 216% spike in U.S. users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
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r/worldnews
r
on reddit
Over half a million ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote
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r/JordanPeterson
r
on reddit
More than half a million ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote as ban looms
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@danilovechkin.com
Danil Ovechkin
on bluesky
This is funny. Coz it goes both way I think, US government would like to block some of the $15k cars and $0.94 products that Chinese can get 😁 [embedded post]
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@techviews
@techviews
on bluesky
LOL... stop saying the wrong things! [embedded post]
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@jingyanghk
Jing Yang
on x
RedNote will soon stop being a #Tiktokers shelter. SCOOP: China's Internet Watchdog directs RedNote to beef up English-language content moderation and work on hiding #tiktokrefugees posts from Chinese users, by @QianerLiu @JuroOsawa via @theinformation https://www.theinformation.…