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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.

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dluan 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To their point, almost exclusively Chinese overseas until the recent memeing.

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bryanlarsen 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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xmprt 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So was this app at one point in time: 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.

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MisoRamen 6 hours ago | parent [-]

RedNote 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 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I 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.

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drakythe 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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toomanyrichies 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		App store top apps are per-region. And China one likely even running on completely different infrastructure because CCP.

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throwawayq3423 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes it's called a meme and it won't last.

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pantalaimon 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.