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People who've used Xiaohongshu(Red note), how is it like? Also is there any FOSS client? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Have heard of it during the Tiktok ban and most comments about it seem positive.

I generally try to avoid using apps that are non-FOSS or opensource, and tried to use the website. I think it's my network provider, but I can't really use the site as it only seems to be available once every 2-3 reloads(I also use a private dns as without that it take 4-5 reloads). I also think that app users can easily change the interface language, as I couldn't find where the switch was on the website. Couldn't create an account because of the same too.

Is there any foss client for it? If not, is the app decent on privacy n all? I generally avoid meta apps, except Whatsapp(which is the major messaging app in India).

Also, what was your experience there? Most comments about the interactions seem very positive. But I have that doubt whether I'm being biased my pov as a leftist.
So I thought I could ask here and see the general opinion.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 points 16 hours ago

It is fun, it's less brain rot than tiktok, closer to what pixelfed and Instagram is but even then it is different, I think it's more like Pinterest or pixiv but for every day shit

Privacy wise, you're assigned a country by your IP and in china specifically it shows your exact region, you can view posts based on proximity.

You'll have your data harvested for recommendations obviously, but the ads don't seem to have this happen to them, they don't seem to feed their data to ads so they're all very general and based on what you searched up instead

I think xiahongshu is better than tiktok in terms of privacy, but the censorship I do not know about, but I haven't been blocked yet.

You can try it out, you lose nothing by doing so, just know it's nearly all Chinese