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Are Weibo and Xiaohongshu used widely outside of China? Given the names alone I'd imagine their adoption is fairly limited to China.
by myrloc 2y ago
Are Weibo and Xiaohongshu used widely outside of China? Given the names alone I'd imagine their adoption is fairly limited to China.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoXiaohongshu is generally known as RedNote outside of China.
- logancbrown 2y agoTo 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.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoRedNote was #1 on the App Store download list for a couple of days. https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-app-rednote-hits-1-in-app-store-as-us-tiktok-ban-nears/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-app-rednote-hits-1-i...
- drakythe 2y agoThat’s an extremely recent development caused by the TT shutdown looming.
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- xmprt 2y agoSo was this app at one point in time: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058399/david-dobrik-disposable-camera-app-downloads-tiktok-instagram-youtube https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058399/david-dobrik-disp... It's called Dispo. You probably haven't heard of it because it became almost irrelevant a few weeks after launch. #1 on the app store doesn't mean a whole lot.
- MisoRamen 2y agoRedNote is a bit different: it has been wildly popular in China for a number of years, and the Chinese community has been using it overseas already. It may not retain all the new users, but it is not going to become irrelevant.
- xmprt 2y agoI agree. But I'm just saying that #1 on the app store doesn't preclude something from being a fad and my guess is that in 1 month's time, no one is going to be talking about RedNote outside of Chinese communities.
- toomanyrichies 2y agoHow 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 2y agoApp store top apps are per-region. And China one likely even running on completely different infrastructure because CCP.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoYes it's called a meme and it won't last.
- pantalaimon 2y agoIt 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.
- dluan 2y agoXiaohongshu is used by a lot of huaqiao outside of China. It has a sizeable overseas userbase, but it also has 300M total users.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoTo their point, almost exclusively Chinese overseas until the recent memeing.
- ameister14 2y agoWhich is honestly weird. It's Little Red Book, not Red Note, in reference to Mao's little red book.
- lupire 2y ago"Little Red Book" doesn't resonate with people outside China
- hintymad 2y agoYeah, if "widely used" means that multiple nations and cultures use the service, then they are not widely used.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoXiaohingshu 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.
- pantalaimon 2y agoLooks like it's getting a lot of TikTik refugees now https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo