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jchook | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
Arguably China has won the day with the massive migration to RedNote.
ffsm8 | parent | next
> massive migration

You're in a bubble if you think there is a massive migration happening to an unlocalized app .

sillysaurusx | root | parent | next
Not at all. There are hundreds of thousands of US users. Most of the content I see is localized and tailored for English. There’s even an auto translate feature. They’re very welcoming and nice, and encourage us to post. Most of them are just showing their houses and what it’s like to live in China.

It was a pleasant surprise. That said, I’m not too interested in endless house tours, so I’m going to see what kind of content there is when things settle down. That’s still a migration though, at least for me.

dkjaudyeqooe | root | parent | next
It's meant as a joke of sorts, not a migration. From the NYT:

"Sure, there are the people calling themselves “TikTok refugees” and joining Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media app, as a half-joking protest of the U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok on national security grounds. (The joke part is: OK, Congress, you want to stop us from using a sketchy Chinese social media app? We’ll download an even sketchier Chinese social media app and use that instead.)"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/technology/what-if-no-one...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/arts/tiktok-red-note-chin...

rayval | root | parent
What is impressive to me as a software developer is that the RedNote engineering team added a Translate item to the system, at scale, within a matter of days. It works flawlessly.
typ | parent
This baffles me a lot as TikTok and RedNote have very distinct market niches except for their Chinese origin. I assume if someone were interested in a flavor of social media like RedNote they would have been on it already.

Is there a really strong market demand for whatever social platform as long as it's owned by a Chinese company?