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A lot of Americans were asking what they need to do to be welcomed, and Chinese users replied asking for pictures of our cats, this evolved into "cat tax".

I suspect it's looking for alipay or wechat or something.

What does the chinese text say?

Rednote, it's like tiktok/insta, but chinese.

There's a lot more interaction between the Chinese and American users than tiktok ever had.

Except I'm seeing a lot of Chinese posts in my fyp, and Chinese users commenting on English posts, implying english posts are coming up on chinese fyps.

The number of "I don't have anything against LGBT+ people, just keep it to yourself" takes is kinda depressing. Though the algo has mostly stopped serving me posts those people comment on and gives me gay furry shit as god intended.

LOL, the irony is that red note is censoring posts from those “tiktok refugee”.

If they're applying any special moderation to tiktok refugee tagged posts, I'm not seeing it. I'm seeing a lot of people say not to discuss politics, but I'm also seeing a lot of posts asking Chinese users specifically about stuff like social credit systems and other weird perceptions or asking about what crazy perceptions Chinese users have about Americans (like that we can work at a restaurant for 3 months and afford to buy a house??).

What's the difference between censorship and moderation in this context?

It's genuinely superior to tiktok though, the algo rewards like 1% of the ragebait, uncredited reposts, and deceptive posts that tiktok does. If they reverse the ban, I'm not going back.

Also, just because there are no ads, doesn’t mean that no one is propping up the business.

There is a shopping tab, and ads are allowed as long as it's declared I think. Undeclared sponsored content gets bans.

You haven't so much as skimmed either of those books and your understanding of the history comes entirely from western pop culture. You are not a serious person.

Comparing Quotations by Mao to fucking Mein Kampf, you are an unserious person.

And also the exact kind of person who would benefit from going on rednote and talking to these people instead of believing whatever bullshit you're told about them.

It seems similar to tiktok; nudity is not OK, but sex-adjacent stuff like bondage is just fine. Art is fine as long as the genitals and nips are censored.

If anything, the chinese government should be thrilled by the idea of Americans seeing that chinese people are just like them and learning first-hand that 90% of what they thought they knew about China was just racism and western propaganda.

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

There's a lot of users expressing as much:

Just check it out, the volume of engagement is massive enough the FYP page can get very specific and very recent.

There's even a few Australians like "Yeah, they're not gonna ban the app, but here's a kangaroo"

I've seen chinese rednote users comparing chinese forums to 4chan and linking another source where the devs said they were working to add translation and other features to help integrate the new userbase.

Everyone I followed on tiktok said they're going to Rednote, and my FYP on rednote is extremely active with tiktok refugees. It's also been the number 1 app on both apple and chrome for 3 days. The users are very real.

As much as TikTok did allow invasive spying and manipulation by China

Except they didn't, they literally handle US data differently than every other country to keep it on US-based servers and hired a bunch of US spooks. Do you think China wanted Tiktok deranking BLM videos in 2020?

You don't have to uncritically accept everything the state department tells you.

What does the Chinese government care what I say about the American government?

What can they do to me anyway?

Except it's owned by Xingyin Information Technology? And I didn't see any ads on Tiktok for Rednote, just creators telling me that's where they're going.

Did you just make that up, or did someone lie to you?

Given that I live in America, I'd rather China controlling my apps than the American government.