[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 Servais@jlai.lu to c/yurop@lemm.ee

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Basically, that's it.

I'm a French speaker, so I try to participate mainly on the French speaking communities such as !forumlibre@jlai.lu, !rance@jlai.lu, !cineseries@jlai.lu, 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 !movies@lemm.ee, 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.

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[-] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 11 points 9 months ago

I always go with English when the topic allows it. Why limit yourself to people that speak a certain language when it's irrelevant to the topic?

[-] Servais@jlai.lu 6 points 9 months ago

Because it just feels different to speak the language you speak at home? I'm working in English all day, I don't mind using the language, but I also like to speak French, each of them feels different.

[-] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 9 months ago

I guess I just don't care about that.

If the entire German language was abolished and replaced with English, I'd welcome it.

[-] Servais@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago

That's very interesting. I'll probably post another topic along those lines in the coming days, I expect people spaeking languages further from English (Slavic or Romance languages) would have different opinions than German and Dutch speakers.