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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Name them!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Your catching me off guard but uh sure

  • loops is a new tiktok like app for the fediverse. And probably most relevant. I say probable because i am still uncomfortable with this type of social media so i dont know what people expect or want from it.

  • odysee. Similar algorithm based video scrolling but have not tried it.

  • lemmy, bet you heard of this one before.

  • mastodon, a similar trend of today. People left twittercorp shithole. Had to make a choice between established actual alternative or brand new and empty twittercorp shithole 2.0

If these event thoughts me something its that people actually have no problem changing platforms and websites. Which i previously thought was the case. Its just seems unpredictable what actual sets a digital migration in motion and to where people will flock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Odysee is more of an replacement for YouTube than TikTok, it has more wider videos, usually more than a minute.