The servers might be slowly splitting.

"we are gonna still be able to see the Chinese content, but primarily, we are gonna be interacting with each other" - FakeCEORealGF video

"interacting with each other" possibly meant servers interacting with each other

That's how Wechat/Weixin has always operated (and also used phone number as a differentiator). WeChat is a Singapore company. Weixin is part of Tencent which is a domestic China mainland company. Any chats between the two are presumably stored on both servers and thus can be accessed by either side's law.

They are probably trying to preempt a TikTok-style claim that they are "sending users data to China" or whatever.

Immediately loses their entire international userbase INSTANTLY if they made it non interchangeable, but this is pretty good

Luckily I joined before this happened, kinda unsurprising considering the Chinese government already kept their internet very isolated

for a while now (months) if i check my posts city distribution it’s distribution ( says abroad) like 90% and 1-2% china.  The only way people will see you is if you interact/ comment with content they provide and someone stops by your profile. i don’t care, i still like the app. still making friends. i won’t complain  … there’s no go* damn ads bombarding you like here in the US 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 i signed up over a year ago. and i noticed this change. 

I'm missing something. Maybe the legalese is too much for me but I don't see where they say we're be using different ones

even if this is the case i don’t feel isolated from Chinese users. 🤷🏻‍♂️

People foresaw this coming since January last year, but people did not believe it since RedNote seemed welcoming.

But if anybody knows China history well, it was only a matter of time before they changed their minds and separate the servers to protect users inside the mainland.

wait so is this a bad thing??? they're not isolating the content right (like blocking users from seeing each other)???

As a Xiaohongshu creator in China, I do think the platform genuinely wants to go global and bring in creators who are already established on TikTok and Instagram.

I’m just not sure how successful that will be. Even with translation, the cultural gap is still pretty big. Content style, humor, community norms, and even what people consider worth sharing are quite different. So international expansion makes sense, but making the ecosystem actually blend well is much harder.