The U.S. TikTok shutdown drove a massive boom in Xiaohongshu (RedNote) downloads in other countries too

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  2. Pretty smooth move by China on this one, really.

    1) Pander to the new President,
    2) Increase downloads of their new app which has who knows what spying capacity,
    3) Leverage destabilizing forces in the US

    All with a short outage and a few notifications. Smart commies, got to hand it to them!

  3. Then I see all these “authentic” Reddit anecdotes about people downloading RedNote and making “tons of friends” to encourage more Redditors to download it.

  5. I mean, yeah?

    There are a ton of US TikTokers with massive followings overseas. If all of them say “We’re all heading over to TikTok”, then it’s obvious their followers are gonna, well, follow them.

  7. I don’t use either, but from what I have heard they are totally different. I get the impression that RedNote is active interaction and TikTok is just scrolling videos. I love this, active interaction is far healthier than scrolling and much harder to run influence campaigns on.

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