US TikTok users are flocking to a popular Chinese social media app, using the hashtag #TikTokrefugees, ahead of America’s looming ban.

RedNote, which is similar to Instagram, has quickly become the most downloaded app in the US App Store in recent days.

According to Bloomberg, the app is popular in Mandarin-speaking countries and has more than 300 million monthly active users.

The app’s homepage is full of Mandarin speakers greeting and introducing themselves to Americans.

“I am an American. Do you all like us? We know you are not the enemy. Can we all be friends?” reads a post with almost 3,000 comments.

The responses consist of a combination of people asking about specific Anglo-American expressions like “y’all”, welcoming the US contingent and joking about stealing data.

“If you give me all your data, we’ll be fine,” one response said, a playful reference to U.S. concerns about national security and TikTok.

Non-Mandarin speaking users are required to agree to privacy notices and terms and conditions that they cannot read, leading to some security concerns.

In Taiwan, officials are banned from using RedNote due to the alleged security risks of Chinese software, similar to a British ban on TikTok on government devices.

The way it looks TikTok will be banned in the US from Sundayunless the Supreme Court overturns the law this week.

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Congress passed a law last year that meant Bytedance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, would either have to sell the company or be banned.

This has triggered the mass migration to RedNote or Xiaohongshu, and this ban will take effect in less than a week.

However, social media expert Adam Tinworth told Sky News there could be a problem with US citizens trying to replace TikTok with another Chinese social media site.

“The legislation that Biden pushed through the House of Representatives, although it specifically names TikTok and Bytedance, contains provisions that would allow the government to unilaterally apply the same procedure to any other service owned by a hostile foreign power.

“So if everything on TikTok ends up migrating to RedNote, then in theory, depending on how the Trump administration feels about it, they could immediately apply the same legislation to Rednote and shut it down just as easily.”