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Comment by tempworkac

4 days ago

Meanwhile many are going to another chinese app, RedNote.

That seems unlikely. The play store lists it at 10m+ downloads and it's still a very Chinese app. I checked it out myself. This is people trying to troll the US government

  • what seems unlikely? it's simply a fact that many are going to the other app. as you said yourself, 10m+ downloads on play store, #1 on ios app store, etc.

    • RedNote don't have english user interface, and it have worse censorship compare to tiktok or facebook.

      Unless you want to learn Chinese and/or spend time to navigate around the content modulation system (not very hard, it just different), the experience ain't great.

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    • Rednote is a popular meme at the moment for obvious reasons. But TikTok has around 170 Million users in the USA. What you see at the moment is a loud minority checking out the app and creating content. This is something happening all the time with Social Media and especially TikTok, loud minorities doing something, and people hard overrating the numbers. There is simply no way that with Rednotes state at the moment, we will see a significant number of users switching from TikTok to it. Maybe at the end we will see some millions switching.

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I think its name is actually Xiaohongshu - "Little Red Book" (you know, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T... )

  • They are simply different translations, period. The book you mentioned is usually referred to as "红宝书" (Red Precious Book). Don't know where the translation on Wikipedia comes from.

    • Search "小红书 毛語錄" in Google. You can see it is referenced in both way.

      The name 红宝书 is popular in mainland China. Chinese from Taiwan or other se asian community just call it 小红书 or 毛語錄

  • Hahaha

    Guess what

    1. As you mentioned, Xiaohongshu, is the same name of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

    2. The CEO of Xiaohongshu has the surname Mao

    3. The headquarters of Xiaohongshu is located near the site of the First National Congress of CPC

    obviously, this is part of CPC's conspiracy

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    • This is exactly the comment I want to see

      > It is very worrying to me

      No other comments can be more brilliant than this

    • They don't know. The average american is super uneducated and can barely read a graph. Most of the ones that heard about it probaly did thanks to the netlix adaptation to the 3 body problem, but certainly not school.

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