They banned tiktok to stop Chinese influence, so users are flocking to an app named after Chairman Mao's little red book. www.wired.com/story/red-no... - ThreadSky

esqueer.net • 49 days ago

They banned tiktok to stop Chinese influence, so users are flocking to an app named after Chairman Mao's little red book.

https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/

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josieweather.bsky.social•49 days ago

I’m ready to be propagandized by Chairman maos little red book

votecnp.bsky.social•49 days ago

Firm, but fair.

tinybluething.bsky.social•49 days ago

If you can't control brainrot, weaponize it to piss off the government. I'm all for it.

j3zz-g.bsky.social•48 days ago

blackwatertvreborn.bsky.social•49 days ago

They’re flocking to it outta pure spite, which is even funnier

martyh1927.bsky.social•48 days ago

This has to be one of the funniest backfires of all time. Whatever the intended goal of the tiktok ban was, I am 100% this wasn’t it.

meowdison.bsky.social•49 days ago

Is this the Streisand Effect? 🧐

nullprose.bsky.social•49 days ago

somewhere between the Streisand and Cobra effect imo😅

rebound.liberalrepublic.org•49 days ago

The law was a horribly written law. If the concern was about manipulation of algos, then they should instead force all feed algos to be open and swappable.

But it would be far better if people transitioned to blue-sky or to something on ATProto or ActivityPub. Someone *needs* to develop one now.

rebound.liberalrepublic.org•49 days ago

The solution to government censorship isnt to give in to another governments forms of control and censorship. We should instead shift to decentralized and open platforms with open source and swappable feeds which can be user-centric rather than hidden and serving others interests.

esqueer.net•49 days ago

It's one of the funniest unintended consequences I've ever seen.

albizu.com•49 days ago

Holy crap. Just like that, number one on the App Store!

mossy-rose.bsky.social•48 days ago

It wasn’t DAYS ago when I lazily searched 😆

thepoopsmith.satan.social•49 days ago

Cultural exchange they really never wanted. Hahaha

alibunnns.bsky.social•49 days ago

It's pretty fun over there. I definitely recommend

henryw1la.bsky.social•48 days ago

May want to re-think that https://www.advocate.com/news/what-is-rednote-tiktok-alternate#rebelltitem5

alibunnns.bsky.social•48 days ago

I've seen plenty of lgbtq related content and so far its been totally fine. The skin part isnt true girls be showing off all the time. They just don't want pornography there. The one downside I've seen so far

But it is definitely likely they're censoring lgbtq content from showing "too much" on fyp

zoeyashley.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is so funny and such a “F U” to the politicians that made this possible possible/probable 😂

thoughtportal.bsky.social•49 days ago

I love this so much

thoughtportal.bsky.social•48 days ago

so last night on tiktok was a wonderful cross cultural party of Americans and Chinese making jokes, sending each other cat pictures and teaching them how to get on this app and read and speak mandarin. it was really great!

notquietmodemd.bsky.social•48 days ago

yes they are. It’s a great form of protest.. someone said are they would rather send nude selfies to ji xingping than give zuck or musk a dollar.
Imagine women choosing the panda lol

amazinglymela.bsky.social•49 days ago

It's the F you to Mark Zuckerberg and Meta who is 💯 behind the banning of TikTok!!! And many are deleting all Meta as write this It's spectacular!!! 🤣

piratecaptain.bsky.social•49 days ago

not to be that guy but they don't call Mao's book Little Red Book in Chinese, they use different (although slightly similar names) for it. Also, that's not even where that name comes from, it's just a coincidence. The company's own translation is REDnote anyway

ipeecutely.bsky.social•49 days ago

This feels like a really important distinction too lol

latognetti.bsky.social•49 days ago

Yeah but the name matters because the coincidence makes it funnier, not because there’s a causal relationship.

piratecaptain.bsky.social•48 days ago

1) OP states explicitly that there is a causal relationship 2) it's a predatory social media app that drives users towards purchasing stuff they don't need, just like any other western hyper-capitalist app. Not sure what makes any of that funny

lapsedhumanist.bsky.social•49 days ago

I love this for us.

satansjockstrap.bsky.social•49 days ago

📌

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

The fact that the US Government is only going after TikTok because it ruined their smoke and mirrors about Gaza is a hindsight bonus when you remember Israel-China relations

zoeyashley.bsky.social•49 days ago

Remind me the relations of that?

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

Transactional, with China supporting Palestine due to viewing Israel as a "plug in" for US/Western affairs.

Meaning there's no real incentive for China to deal with the TikTok issue other than money

jcastro79.bsky.social•49 days ago

What are you talking they been trying to go after TikTok before Gaza war

mandoqueer.itch.io•49 days ago

I don't think it reached the point of bipartisan consensus until fairly recently under Biden though.

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

Is that so...? Interesting...

jcastro79.bsky.social•49 days ago

In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then-president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat, and I guess he change his mind now he wants to saved

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

I'm collecting and updating the info as proven, but some facts are boiling up according to current politics interests as opposed to decades where you would think they'd do something about it earlier

fokus.bsky.social•49 days ago

Gaza war has been raging for 80 years at least...

jcastro79.bsky.social•49 days ago

Why can this people be in peace

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

I amend my statement to remove "only".

Apparently it was a tipping point, but not "only"

lavenderbean.bsky.social•49 days ago

What are you on about lol. There's plenty of pro-Palestine content on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and the US government isn't banning either of them.

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

Yet

lavenderbean.bsky.social•49 days ago

They aren't going to period. They're too US-friendly for that, especially with Zuck going out of his way to please Trump

twintremere.bsky.social•49 days ago

True, and I'm only pointing out the "tipping point" for the situation as described by some of the analysts across the platform

They really didn't like it when Biden looked like he was aiding the aggressive side lol

chadradish.bsky.social•48 days ago

Those platforms also
A: have a ton of pro-Israel content as well
And B: are used by mostly older people

Tiktok meanwhile is overwhelmingly slanted towards Palestinian rights and has a userbase of mostly schoolchildren. They're trying to stop a generation from being radicalized.

lavenderbean.bsky.social•48 days ago

Again the same kind of content could be found on Twitter but the government isn't doing anything about it. It's literally just because TikTok is not a US company.

chadradish.bsky.social•48 days ago

Well don't take my word for it, here's Senator Mitt Romney literally just saying that the ban is because the site is too pro-Palestinian.

lavenderbean.bsky.social•48 days ago

From CGTN? Let's be honest the actual reason is basically "oh no Chinese social media app is doing better than Twitter shut it down"

lassharleymarie1.bsky.social•49 days ago

And the people who wanna buy it are former Trump admin folks and right wing folks in general so that tells you even more about this….

anarcho-slut.bsky.social•48 days ago

it's a fun app algorithm is a bit wonky but i'm reconnecting with my tiktok ccp spy on a more personal level now though. Even learned a little mandarin

fokus.bsky.social•49 days ago

Lol that's irony 🤣

kesanook.bsky.social•49 days ago

i have both. it's interesting that they are forcing the sale of tiktok. so it won't be banned. i talk to china regularly. we look at eachother anytime we like. we watch those in power complain about eachother. meanwhile we want to know what's for dinner, was it good and worth the price!

aquietmage.revelah.gg•49 days ago

@marreta.pcdomanual.com

marreta.pcdomanual.com•49 days ago

🔗 https://marreta.pcdomanual.com/p/https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/ 🧨

letsgohawksgpg.bsky.social•48 days ago

There’s over 7 million “small businesses “ on TikTok …creators who’ve created a side hustle to supplement their income …this it going to really hit them hard

smilingrain.bsky.social•49 days ago

omg 😆

lavenderbean.bsky.social•49 days ago

The funnier bit is that the app named after the Little Red Book is an unholy fusion of Instagram and Alibaba

whisperingsage.bsky.social•49 days ago

That's basically what TikTok is as well.

mooseman.bsky.social•49 days ago

The article you shared says the name doesn’t come from Mao’s little red book.

wordlight.bsky.social•49 days ago

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•49 days ago

Caveat mfing emptor

ebroms.bsky.social•49 days ago

the level of spite we should all aspire to, truly

00agongga.bsky.social•47 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/00agongga.bsky.social/post/3lfqrmbkxus2o

steedpeel23.bsky.social•49 days ago

Anyone who joins this app deserves what will eventually come to them.

nicoleaduran.bsky.social•48 days ago

Which will be??

renardeblanche.bsky.social•48 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/renardeblanche.bsky.social/post/3lfpb7wfpy226

renardeblanche.bsky.social•49 days ago

As a native Chinese, I feel obliged to inform those who rush to the Chinese platform that: the platform is extremely anti-LGBTQ+ and full of populism and western conservative conspiracy theory.
It’s mainly a Chinese version of Elon’s X. 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷

kathrinredfeather.bsky.social•48 days ago

Sounds about right, from what I know about the Chinese government. Everyone hates us (LGBTQIA+)....we can't exist without being treated like shit....even though most cultures are built on our entertainment...Hollywood would be boring without us, tv, movies, books, games would be boring without us.

savageplatypus.bsky.social•48 days ago

We have to stop asking to exist.

novadam.bsky.social•48 days ago

just set more reasonable goals is all

novadam.bsky.social•48 days ago

just in case, that’s sarcasm

savageplatypus.bsky.social•48 days ago

Nah I just bought a gun and live in a stand your ground and castle law state. Just waiting for some idiot to think their religion means something here :)

henryw1la.bsky.social•48 days ago

Progressives may want to think twice about using RedNote. https://www.advocate.com/news/what-is-rednote-tiktok-alternate#rebelltitem5

katendgame.bsky.social•49 days ago

Feeling this so hard

jeana-mm.bsky.social•49 days ago

Rednote is more like Insta than Tiktok , the lay out is very similar on mobile , There be lots of bands to follow for them at least

dmvbizman.bsky.social•49 days ago

Watch as Congress has absolutely no problem with this as long as people don't criticize Israel.

They couldn't care less if Russia or China meddle in our affairs.

But talking honestly about how evil Israel is or point out how much THEY meddle in our affairs, Congress will ban that too.

theodinson.bsky.social•49 days ago

Why would they care?! The NSGOP has recieved nothing but Support from Russia and China in their efforts dismantling American.
They wont bite the Hands that bribe them.

hyprjinni.bsky.social•49 days ago

Fuck, somehow my brain missed that connection. That is some tasty irony 🤌

ptelea.gay•49 days ago

This is the "Ok Boomer" girl now. Feel old yet?

nilani.bsky.social•49 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/nilani.bsky.social/post/3lfeamvwvmk2u

milesbenjamin.bsky.social•49 days ago

trashcanjack.bsky.social•49 days ago

Sounds more like this story originates with the Chinese government.

casualverse.bsky.social•49 days ago

dumb leading the dumb. sometimes its not just dumbass conservatives cutting off their nose to spite their own faces.

black-rainbow.bsky.social•49 days ago

Just wait until a hundred million Americans are interacting with millions of Chinese people and watch all this Sinophobia and nationalistic fervor evaporate like a fart in the wind.

Congress just may have punched themselves in the balls.

slighthubris.bsky.social•48 days ago

America's opinions don't matter to Congress.

black-rainbow.bsky.social•48 days ago

Maybe not, but it will make their lives harder once they come on the situation where a huge chunk of the electorate no longer resonates with US Government's wider bullshit because they've interacted directly with Chinese citizens.

black-rainbow.bsky.social•48 days ago

There on Red Note, Chinese citizens are EXCITED to interact with Americans and the CEO has welcomed the so-called "TikTok Refugees" with open arms.

Profiles have spawned wide open with Chinese people wanting to teach Americans Mandarin.

black-rainbow.bsky.social•48 days ago

I've never seen anything like it on the internet in my life, and that's saying quite a bit, I'm 42. Additionally for fear of FOMO, even Canadians and Brits have come to Red Note.

This is going to spawn a colossal culture shift in both China and the US.