With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’
www.wired.com
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      You can still connect to it, the app store has to take it down and it can’t be hosted in the u.s. assuming your ISP allows it, you can still access the TikTok servers outside of the u.s. but that’s going to cause a lot of traffic and ISPs will throttle it or block it completely.

      You can still side load the app, not sure how iOS users are going to do that and that’s going to be the majority of people.

      So you may or may not still be able to use the current app without a VPN until TikTok updates it or the OEMs push an update that bricks it.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Connecting to it isn’t hard, But they won’t be able to pay people, so the US content will just get starved out.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Youtube has backed down a lot, but they’re still paying their golden geese.

            Spiffing britt has let a new recent video payouts out of the bag, a good multi-million hit view video still nets him around 20k.

        • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I’m not actually seeing anything preventing creators from being paid, they’re just going to lose the majority of their u.s. audience on the platform.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            They won’t freeze the assets until the company is officially barred from working here. They won’t just fuck around and blindly try to figure out what they’re doing, once they command Apple and Google to remove it from the App store, they’ll start freezing assets and stopping financial transactions. It’s just the nature of the beast.