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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 days ago (42 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.

[–] autonomoususer 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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!

[–] atrielienz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This ban was never to protect user privacy. It is to protect the federal government from what users willingly give away to foreign social media companies (and only those companies that are in the control of US adversaries). It was never about you and if you assumed that based on what the government said, you deserve to be disappointed. They give only fucks about what the average user can do to hurt them.

[–] Maggoty 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because Chinese intelligence doesn't trawl YouTube, Meta, and X?

[–] atrielienz 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sigh. That's a whataboutism argument and I'm over it. You do not have to agree.

[–] Maggoty -1 points 22 hours ago

Not really. It demonstrates that this is useless and probably not the real intent.

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