Algorithm Mechanism · vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills
Optimize posts for the Xiaohongshu recommendation algorithm
Explains how Xiaohongshu's recommendation system moves posts through initial testing, expanded distribution, and viral reach, and shows which engagement signals to optimize for. Useful when views are low or you want to understand why similar posts perform very differently.
Good for
- Diagnose why a post's views stayed unexpectedly low
- Time posts and early replies to boost initial engagement
- Optimize titles, covers, and tags for algorithm signals
- Source repository
- vivy-yi/xiaohongshu-skills
- Category
- Xiaohongshu
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A good place to start
My last three Xiaohongshu posts only got 50 views each — help me figure out what's holding back the algorithm's initial distribution.

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