Red Note and Lemon8 Are Not the TikTok Refuge You’re Looking for

Red Note and Lemon8 Are Not the TikTok Refuge You’re Looking for


Analysis and Technology

Chinese social media apps Red Note and Lemon8 have become popular choices for TikTok users before the US government banned TikTok. But government restrictions are looming on those apps too

By Jeremy Hsu

US TikTok users are gravitating towards Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as Red Note

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The impending TikTok ban in the US has prompted many American users of the app to try other Chinese-owned social media apps like Red Note and Lemon8. These host short-form videos and photos and have recently become the most downloaded mobile apps on the US Apple App Store and Google Play store.

But Red Note – the English name for Chinese app Xiaohongshu –…

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