With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
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Meanwhile the mainstream will probably just focus on Instagram and its reels feature as pretty much all bigger creators crosspost everything there as well.
Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me, anyone willing to indulge Zuck's midlife Nazi crisis deserves him.
Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me
I'm waiting for by Loops verification mail but I'd say the average Lemmy user has not that much in common with the average TikTok/IG user.
the average Lemmy user has not that much in common with the average TikTok/IG user
The fact that they managed to clone the most idiotic and brainwashing platform on the internet proves that they are pretty average.
The instagram reels and YouTube shorts algorithms are utter shit. I’ve tried, but holy shit there’s some crap in there.
In all likelihood, Red Note will be banned banned, probably before the Red Note devs add a built-in translate function.
Meanwhile the mainstream would probably just download whatever VPNs they can.
Way to much credit for the average user.
I am saying this because I saw this happen. Whenever I accidentally peek into a random's phone on a bus, chances are the homescreen has a VPN app. The blocked social media did have a bit of a decline, but remain very popular, especially Youtube, which was likely the biggest drive for people to bypass the blocks. The lack of credit is more about them often choosing shady VPN services.
You can still connect to it, the app store has to take it down and it can't be hosted in the u.s. assuming your ISP allows it, you can still access the TikTok servers outside of the u.s. but that's going to cause a lot of traffic and ISPs will throttle it or block it completely.
You can still side load the app, not sure how iOS users are going to do that and that's going to be the majority of people.
So you may or may not still be able to use the current app without a VPN until TikTok updates it or the OEMs push an update that bricks it.
Connecting to it isn't hard, But they won't be able to pay people, so the US content will just get starved out.
I'm not actually seeing anything preventing creators from being paid, they're just going to lose the majority of their u.s. audience on the platform.
They won't freeze the assets until the company is officially barred from working here. They won't just fuck around and blindly try to figure out what they're doing, once they command Apple and Google to remove it from the App store, they'll start freezing assets and stopping financial transactions. It's just the nature of the beast.
We have a similar situation on Youtube - the site itself doesn't pay the creators anymore. But everyone who had Youtube as a profession is still there. Some depend on a Patreon-like service, some on their own sponsorships.
Youtube has backed down a lot, but they're still paying their golden geese.
Spiffing britt has let a new recent video payouts out of the bag, a good multi-million hit view video still nets him around 20k.
I meant because of sanctions they don't receive anything from Youtube itself. Yet they go on.
Ahh, well, we'll see I suppose.
I wonder if Tiktok would respond by making their mobile webapp better in this case.
By the way, if the traffic is throttled and not outright blocked - that would mean things like GoodbyeDPI would be likely possible instead of VPNs!
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.
but uh, why tf did they use tiktok in the first place