Comment by myrloc

Comment by myrloc 3 months ago

19 replies

Are Weibo and Xiaohongshu used widely outside of China? Given the names alone I'd imagine their adoption is fairly limited to China.

bryanlarsen 3 months ago

Xiaohongshu is generally known as RedNote outside of China.

  • logancbrown 3 months ago

    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.

    • dluan 3 months ago

      Xiaohongshu is used by a lot of huaqiao outside of China. It has a sizeable overseas userbase, but it also has 300M total users.

      • throwawayq3423 3 months ago

        To their point, almost exclusively Chinese overseas until the recent memeing.

    • bryanlarsen 3 months ago

      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...

      • drakythe 3 months ago

        That’s an extremely recent development caused by the TT shutdown looming.

      • toomanyrichies 3 months ago

        How many of those downloads originated in China? Genuine question, I read the article and it doesn't say. Apple's App Store is available in China, and China's population alone could be skewing those numbers.

        • SXX 3 months ago

          App store top apps are per-region. And China one likely even running on completely different infrastructure because CCP.

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    • pantalaimon 3 months ago

      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.

  • ameister14 3 months ago

    Which is honestly weird. It's Little Red Book, not Red Note, in reference to Mao's little red book.

    • lupire 3 months ago

      "Little Red Book" doesn't resonate with people outside China

hintymad 3 months ago

Yeah, if "widely used" means that multiple nations and cultures use the service, then they are not widely used.