From bad to worse - TikTok users move to TokTik
To spite the Supreme Court (that may or may not ban TikTok in the U.S. this Sunday, the 19th of Jan 2025), TikTok users are moving in troves to... another Chinese platform, called RedNote. Not only they are moving in blind, not knowing what this platform's capabilities are, but the client app is not even translated in English.
Therefore:
TechCrunch:
TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the TikTok ban. The U.S. law, scheduled to go into effect on January 19, unless halted by the Supreme Court, will see TikTok removed from U.S. app stores and will stop the app from functioning on users’ devices unless they install a VPN client.
Though some TikTok refugees have since struggled with technical problems when signing up for RedNote, and others immediately got booted for community violations, the intent of the move from one Chinese-owned app to another is meant to send a strong signal to the U.S. government and would-be TikTok competitors like Meta that there’s demand for the type of social networking experiences that China creates and U.S. companies have only managed to imitate.
This pretty much sounds like when your mom is saying "Don't shoot yourself in the other foot" but you are already too hot-headed not to; alas, you don't know how to operate the gun, so you take the user's manual and start learning Chinese.
To use a quote from Terminator 2: "We don't have a chance, we as a species, do we?"