Comment by myrloc
12 hours ago
Are Weibo and Xiaohongshu used widely outside of China? Given the names alone I'd imagine their adoption is fairly limited to China.
12 hours ago
Are Weibo and Xiaohongshu used widely outside of China? Given the names alone I'd imagine their adoption is fairly limited to China.
Xiaohongshu is generally known as RedNote outside of China.
To directly answer the question, Rednote is not generally used outside China, and the point about these apps being representative of "global" social media apps is false.
Xiaohongshu is used by a lot of huaqiao outside of China. It has a sizeable overseas userbase, but it also has 300M total users.
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RedNote was #1 on the App Store download list for a couple of days.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-app-rednote-hits-1-i...
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It received some popularity among TikTok refugees from the US and subsequently also from around the world by users who got curios about what the fuzz was all about.
Which is honestly weird. It's Little Red Book, not Red Note, in reference to Mao's little red book.
"Little Red Book" doesn't resonate with people outside China
Xiaohingshu is widely used outside China... by Chinese.
My experience in the UK is that the whole Chinese community is on it for anything (discussions, classifieds...) instead of Facebook, Insta, etc.
Looks like it's getting a lot of TikTik refugees now
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo
Yeah, if "widely used" means that multiple nations and cultures use the service, then they are not widely used.