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The US government’s position on this can be summed up as “massive unaccountable US tech firms having all of your data and manipulating public opinion via their black box algorithms is okay, but Chinese companies doing that is a national security concern”. I call BS. The degree to which China is actually a US adversary is being massively overstated by the US government as they see this as a threat to US geopolitical hegemony and America’s ability to propagandize its own citizens. I have spent some time on RedNote (Xiaohongshu) and all I have seen is friendly cross-cultural exchange and discussion between these supposed ‘adversaries’.

Someone go make green note, blue note, yellow note, all the notes!!!!

excellent to know so we are going to make and enforce privacy regulations so this pattern doesn’t keep repeating itself

… right?

It has Israeli investors so any pro-palestine content won't last long!

I don’t understand, why are exactly are people moving to RedNote? I’ve never heard of it.

The news tends to drive things like this, so I don't know how many people are really "flocking" to this Chinese application. This is also so artificial. Forces are driving this and people don't seem to notice.

Regardless of the number, I'm completely baffled. They don't even understand why the US government is doing this in the first place.

These folks are jumping off a sinking ship and grabbing steadfast to the first piece of flotsam that they found... which ironically suffers from the same exact problems that the ship did in the first place. It will inevitably suffer the same demise. It's crazy that those holding on don't seem to understand that.

If you want to keep TikToking or whatever it is people do on that platform, you should join the closest Western version, preferably owned by a multi-billionaire in the US. Their platforms will be protected no matter how much data is stolen and how much privacy is violated. The goal wasn't to stop the communist Chinese government, but ensure that Americans maintain a stranglehold over these vices so that they can benefit from them. People are being used and just don't care.

It sure would have been nice if more people join the fediverse in response to things like this, but alas... it's not quite mature enough yet. They can't look for something like Loops because it just isn't ready. They go to things like BlueSky, completely oblivious to the fact that it can't be what they really want. They don't even know what they want. They just follow the lemmings before them.

Someday this will change for the better. Maybe. Perhaps not.

I'll never personally understand short form video and influencers and everything else around that. But for others, it's a huge deal... at least that's what the media seem to be making it into.

I mean... perhaps this is unintentionally the begining of something good and they just don't realize it yet.

Good luck TickTockers. Even if the platform remains, you're still being taking advantage. The opportunity is now, and you're blowing it. Something completely entrenched has finally been disrupted. You could take advantage of something better, but you're choosing not to.