YUROP

1212 readers

1 users here now

A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Other European communities

[email protected]

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 10 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

qaz

[Ask Europe] People speaking languages with a small population on Lemmy, how do you deal with the dilemma of posting in English or in your other language? (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

41 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Basically, that's it.

I'm a French speaker, so I try to participate mainly on the French speaking communities such as [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], but the issue is that apart from the 2-3 top ones, the others are usually very quiet.

I know it's a chicken and egg problem (as you need content for people to come and participate), but for instance with movies, I'm always torn between posting the content in the French-speaking community, or the much larger [email protected], where I know that the audience is much bigger. Same for science, history, most topics actually.

I don't expect anyone to have a magical formula (the most obvious solution being just having more speakers of that language on Lemmy), but I was curious to see if other people in the same situation had insights to share.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@cali_ash @Servais

Why limit yourself to people that speak a certain language when it's irrelevant to the topic?

Speaking english is also limiting oneself to people that speak a given language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not in the same way since English is pretty much the lingua franca of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

True, but we are still excluding some people when we use it. By always writing in English one always excludes the same ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

A few years ago, definitely.

Today, with the widespread usage of the Internet to most of the population, I'm not so sure. There are link aggregators operating in other languages, such as https://www.meneame.net/ for Spanish for instance, and they are quite popular and active. As someone else mentioned, even languages like Czech (10 millions speakers) have active communities on Reddit.