Chinese app RedNote tops charts ahead of TikTok ban as users seek alternatives to the ByteDance-owned app
Chinese app RedNote tops charts ahead of TikTok ban as users seek alternatives to the ByteDance-owned app
On Monday, Chinese users of RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China, welcomed “TikTok refugees” to the platform.
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Americans fleeing to another Chinese app have got to be some of the dumbest of the dumb that ever did dumb.
It's intentional afaik, this move is primarily motivated by spite. "Oh, you're banning the Singaporean app for being hostile state media? Ok we'll go to actual hostile state media then"
Disclaimer: not a tiktok user, so my knowledge is secondhand
"Singaporean"
Oh is loops fediverse‽
Yep made by same guy as pixelfed, the federated instagram alternative https://pixelfed.org/ https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
Loops has iPhone app in beta on TestFlight and supposedly one on GitHub for Android
There’s a Lemmy app called photon Or something that’s integrating loops
it's very early days for loops and as far as i've seen there's no option to host your own instance (though they say it will be open source, it is not right now). https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions
