On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.S. ban.
It's just to make an account. It's not going to actually display your number. Just make a separate Google account and use that.
The Google account seems unnecessary if you're attaching a number bc you could just sign up using only the number.
Anyway, I think I'm going to stick with the account I made using a dud gmail address and cope with being unable to post or comment anything