but why?

You should still be able to lurk, like, and collect posts. Just not comment or post.

Unfortunately RedNote is doing this to a lot of foreign accounts. If you have a passport, there is a chance (but no guarantee) that you can have your account restored. But unfortunately there is no real rhyme or reason for this, and no way to appeal.

It was always an iffy proposition to fully commit to a social media app created and run for the government of a very sensitive nationalist government. The fact we had such a good run on the app was amazing. But all good things come to an end.

it's over basically 😔

This just happened to me, I already tried to appeal with my passport and everything, I feel very exposed but it really is a very good app and besides it is where I wanted to learn Chinese, idk if it was because I said "youtube" in ONE comment, but still... I want my account back :(

maybe just because the odd rules in the country. such as you cannot mention a lot of app including youtube even local version of tiktok :(

Just make a wechat account, passport verify it and then use that as the verification for rednote...simple!

This happened to me too 😔

Your account has been blocked not because anything you posted actually violated any community rules, but because China has a new policy forcing everyone to verify. If you want your account to be unblocked, I can handle it for you. Its ok if you don’t have passports,