Red Note and Lemon8 are not the TikTok refuges you are looking for

A looming TikTok ban in the US has prompted many of the app’s American users to try other Chinese-owned social media apps such as 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 the Chinese app Xiaohongshu –…