Now that tiktok may be banned in the US a lot of people are moving to the next Chinese social network.
If they can’t use one service that the Chinese government can use to spy on you then they’re going to use another service that the Chinese government can use to spy on you .
You’ve gotten a few answers already that explain what it is, but a lot of the discussion misses the “why” of the situation. There’s a strong anti-US government part to the whole situation that basically says “if you’re going to ban tiktok in the US because you’re afraid of China getting our data/controlling the algorithm then we’ll just join a social media site whose servers are actually in China!” It’s a big FU to the government.
Apparently it’s a Chinese TikTok alternative
What I don’t understand is why RedNote?
Has it been pushed and advertised by TikTok?
There are countless other established platforms. Not sure why.
To specially tell the government “fuck you” it was sought after because of it also being a Chinese app and it’s more of a deep state kind of app really regulated by the government. It’s name comes from some red notebook that dude running the country is often seen carrying.
Tiktok itself isn’t pushing it the creators are. Plenty of them getting banned though as the rules are strict.
Anything owned by major companies such as meta people don’t wanna be apart of. What they claim tiktok is doing they are doing worse
tiktok has(d) developed into a hivemind where tens of millions of people (or more?) can be a part of a discussion. This made it easy for trends to spread rapidly, such as deciding where to migrate with the impending tiktok ban. From my own experience on tiktok, the last few weeks there was much discussion of where to go, and it appears the hivemind settled on rednote.
The new thing the kids flocked to because the adults found their old thing and started to join/ regulate it.
Its one of the few platforms where you can be anti Zionist and not being cancelled.
