Why do folks join Rednote

It's fun, welcoming, and like visiting another country. Of course, certain topic are out of bounds, but it only takes a little while to realize that some of the posts that appear there, would be out of bounds on American media.

Amazing place for understanding chinese society. High quality useful content, good censorship (I know it's contentious)

As a crafter, it’s an amazing resource. I’ve learned to translate crochet patterns from Chinese and taught myself to read crochet diagrams on there. I also use it to find recipes since Pinterest just seems like pure AI slop these days.

Basically they think they are proving something. When Tik Tok got banned for a day they all joined little red book (that’s the actual translation and yes it’s a reference to Mao’s little red book) thinking they were making some kind of point against the US government.

For some reason they are unable to recognise the national security threat proposed by the CCP controlling the algorithm that young generations watch for hours every day.

As you wil see though foreigners are getting kicked off little red book. The CCP is regretting allowing all these foreigners on because they don’t like foreigners seeing what real Chinese social media is like (horrible and racist), they don’t like Chinese interacting with foreigners, and they are highly xenophobic regime.

mostly to follow artist in fandoms I partake in. X content is kinda dry and full of annoying non related reccomendation, so I appreciate the content of XHS.

The space/'circle' for some of my hobbies/interests are far bigger, more active and more welcoming than elsewhere. It's easier to browse than most other social media and has a good amount of non-video content/discussion/tutorials. I've never used tiktok and don't care for it either.

I actually live in China and do prototyping I’ve joined Rednote and found the content similar to instagram but personally I deleted it cause not really inline with me personally I don’t really like doom scrolling.

Tbh I actually in the country and hardly used it but seeing so many foreigner interested peaked my interest.

It's way more educational and relaxed compared to TikTok or YouTube shorts

There's also way less/no annoying "brainrot" and meme content, and not that many low effort videos

Thanks for the response and what did u think of it, did u like it?

Curiosity in my case.

But I got tired of it, it got boring and I deleted the app after a while.