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Xiaohongshu, China's answer to Instagram, hits no. 1 on the App Store as TikTok faces US shutdown (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hilarious to me that Tik-Tok was banned for its ties to China (despite the US version of the app being hosted entirely on servers in the US run by Oracle) only for users to flood to an app that is extremely obviously Chinese with an already existing Chinese netizen userbase.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

literally the first thing I saw in my feed after making an account ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Let a thousand TikToks bloom and the US oligarchs play Whac-A-Mole ๐Ÿคท https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore