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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I would like Loops to get an influx of users, but this would be too many in one go while loops is not in a sustainable position to support them. The unfortunate truth is that Loops can't handle that level of usership yet

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How do you actually sign up? I tried and it said it will send me an email and that's it.

[–] stroz@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It might take a little while for the email to show up. When I signed up, it was a couple of hours, but it was under a good bit of stress at the time.

Things are going smoothly this morning. Uploads are quick to process, and the timeline seems to be moving along with new content. So YMMV

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] stroz@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, there is an Android app, but it does need to be side loaded. There is an APK download once you get signed into the web interface.

Similarly, there is a TestFlight for the iOS app.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Nobody I want to follow is using it."

By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won't go where there aren't already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.

[–] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So is red note, who is on red note?!

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 31 minutes ago

The influencers went there first as protest because they're a Chinese company

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

Kim Kardashian