In particular, I’m referring to the people who would be redditors, but don’t really use English. All the main Reddit subs are filled with English, and the few outposts on Reddit that mainly are not English are relatively small. This leads me to believe that such speakers must be going somewhere else for their Reddit-esque needs.

A few locations I’m already aware of:

  • South Korea uses arca.live
  • Japan uses LINE
  • The PRC uses Baidu Tieba
  • Russia uses Pikabu and VK

Do any of you know of any other non-English Reddit equivalents? I’m interested in how countries outside the US handle their social media.

  • oktoberpaard@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    I think people overestimate how many of the English comments are written by native speakers. By using English, you have a much larger audience, especially for niche subjects. I almost never use my native language on the internet.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    Ehh… arca.live isn’t really like reddit, maybe more like 4chan lmao

    LINE isn’t like reddit either, it’s more like whatsapp or telegram

    due to cultural differences i doubt there are true equivalents. there are some non-english speaking subreddits btw

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Honestly, i don’t know, but setting up some website that’s vaguely similar to reddit, is not that hard. (Building a community and maintaining tech and community is harder.) Thus, there are probably tons of reddit-like places, some bigger, some smaller.

    Before reddit and facebook, there were forums (like bb boards). Some have survived (in niches). Some communities have huge Facebook groups, used with fake accounts for shitposting. Some people use twitter/bluesky/mastodon as a reddit substite.

    I guess that Instagram and TikTok have most of the market in many countries. People won’t tell you how much time they spend on tiktok, but they still do.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    The Germans are definitely just using Reddit. As the other commenter said, compare the numbers of native speakers of e.g. German (about 100 million) with those of English (about 400 million) and then consider how much more common English is as a second language compared to most other European languages. Spanish is probably the biggest question mark here, they actually have more native speakers than English. There is also the possibility that Reddit-style platforms just aren’t as popular everywhere, it appeals to a particular demographic that might just not be as big in e.g. Colombia as it is in, say. Sweden.

    • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Right. I figure that most Germanic and Romance speakers would be using Reddit. But that does leave the question of where those who don’t speak a European language, and don’t care to learn one, go - I know for sure that there are a notable number of Chinese and Japanese people who only speak their language, and use machine translation if they need to use another.

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I figured reddit may have been translating some of its pages automatically. I have seen some posts with the exact same comments fully translated between English German and French.