Assuming you’re going to replace it with anything, where are you going. I downloaded rednote which is kind of like Chinese instagram because it’s a perfect F-you to meta and everyone else to go straight back to Chinese tech. I’ve also heard the names Neptune, lemon8 and a few others thrown around. Where are you guys headed?

(However I believe we’re truly losing something important that won’t be replaced, TikTok was one of a kind in the fact that everyone was on it despite it not being American)

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    Lemon8 is another byteDance product, if I recall. It's definitely the popular choice, and I think TikTok has been promoting it on the app. It also will transfer your account to lemon8 and automatically subscribe to people from your TikTok subscriptions if they create an account. I think it also will give your mutuals a notification if you've added your account to lemon8. The weird thing about all that, though, I believe lemon8 must also shut down on the 19th because of the way the law is written, but I haven't fully investigated that yet. So Im not sure why lemon8 would put in all that labor to create an evacuation system from TikTok to lemon8 if it could be shut down too.

    REDnote is new to me, but apparently it's the second-highest search term on the Google Play Store right now, under lemon8.

    I'll probably have both and see how things shake out.

    • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      REDnote is a new name for xiaohongshu (小红书), a Chinese short video style social media app similar to douyin/tiktok or instagram.

      It would be amazing if Westerners started using it. There's no Chinese/English ecosystem split like tiktok/douyin has. Chinese and Americans would be together on the same social media platform.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      It also will transfer your account to lemon8 and automatically subscribe to people from your TikTok subscriptions if they create an account.

      that must mean that nobody i followed created a lemon8 account even though about a dozen or so told me to and it also seems unlikely since i suspect that i follow hundreds of people.