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.
hmm, just because non-english subreddits are small doesn’t really tell us much here. Non-English speaking monolinguals are used to smaller communities (let’s ignore China and India for the sake of this thought experiment) simply because the number of the speakers of their language is smaller. So a subreddit of a smaller size wouldn’t be particularly surprising here
those folks often use the same social media platforms within their own linguistic bubbles. Not always, of course, you gave examples of websites used by specific language speakers, but i’m just pointing out how this might not be a universal fact for every language