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schizoidman@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote | TechCrunch
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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

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    All the women in my office said everyone is moving to Lemonade. They said, “why would we move to another Chinese app? That’s dumb.”

    No idea who owns Lemonade but it was interesting to me that they were not interested at all in Rednote.

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      Lemon8 is owned by the same company as TikTok, they’re literally trading one Chinese app for another anyways.

      If you want to drop that bombshell at the office LMAO

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        Love it. Can’t wait to!

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          Keep us posted!

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          Any updates?

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            lol, not yet. Too busy to really talk to any of my office mates today.

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      Lemonade is an insurance company, yeah, they moving their car insurance ti Lemonade.

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        It’s actually Lemon8

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          Is that not also shutting down?

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          Powered by tictok? What does that mean?

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            Lemon8 is a social media app owned by Heliophilia Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean company connected to the Chinese internet company ByteDance. It was launched in 2020 and modeled after Xiaohongshu, which was released in 2013.

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            The U.S. launch of Lemon8 coincided with scrutiny over ByteDance and TikTok’s operations in the country;

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              so just tiktok with glasses and a mustache?

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            🤷🏼‍♂️

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      https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/is-lemon8-a-good-replacement-for-tiktok-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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