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El propósito y futuro de esta comunidad | What IS this community? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 13 hours ago by DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz to c/spanish@sopuli.xyz

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Como varios de ustedes ya han comentado anteriormente, el panorama global de Lemmy (en especial en sopuli) es pequeño y posiblemente sea difícil mantener una comunidad que se enfoca exclusivamente en el idioma castellano lo suficientemente activa.

Sin embargo, creo que Lemmy seguirá creciendo lentamente a medida que más usuarios busquen alternativas menos centralizadas para sus redes sociales. Por lo tanto considero pertinente tener una comunidad para la cuarta lengua más hablada del mundo. Aquí los no-nativos podrán interactuar con nativos, todos podremos discutir aspectos relevantes del castellano, y construir una comunidad centrada en nuestra lengua para todo aquel que le interese.

"Spanish" espera ser internacional, enfocada hacia el aprendizaje y la discusión de la lengua. Así que sean todos bienvenidos a nuestra comunidad.

As many of you have already pointed out, Lemmy as a whole (and especially sopuli) would struggle significantly to maintain an active community that focuses exclusively on the Spanish language.

However, I believe that these communities will experience a natural growth as more users start gravitating towards less centralised alternatives to mainstream social media. Therefore, I believe it makes sense to have a hub for the fourth most spoken language in the world. We strive to be a community for both natives and non-natives alike to discuss and answer questions pertaining to our language for anyone who wants to participate.

"Spanish" hopes to be an international community focused on the study and discussion of language. So all posts within this category are very welcome.

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[–] Sagan@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'll switch to English as I'm a non native

As I said earlier, !esp@chachara.club is probably more generalist, and would be easier to keep active than an "English speaking community about Spanish for non native"

Let's not forget that this community was never actually active in the first place, there are 4 posts total. It was created by https://sopuli.xyz/u/hesburger who just created a bunch of communities without ever posting to them.

If we look at French, another important language, at the moment there is mostly !forumlibre@jlai.lu, mostly in French, but if someone wants to ask a question about French is possible too.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/20107838/13482776

Even English doesn't have any active dedicated community https://sopuli.xyz/search?q=English+&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

People would just ask questions on one of the generic Ask communities

If that community hadn't been created by hesburger, would anyone else think it would need to exist?

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Actually, I think it makes sense. Japanese definitely has a specific learning community, while communities about Japanese culture or even communities in Japanese exist elsewhere.

Reddit's r/Spanish community is completely different from !esp here, and I think this community aims to be that eventually instead of what any of the chachara communities are, which I feel are closer to just forums for Spanish speakers to post whatever.

Ultimately, among English speakers, Spanish and Japanese are the two most popular languages to learn, and if you look at r/Spanish, again, it's one of the largest language-focused communities on Reddit. Think about this more as a sub for language learning than a sub just for posts in Spanish.

And hey, if no one ever posts here, I mean, that's totally fine as well, right? I don't see the problem with trying to make an active community for language learners.

English obviously will never have a dedicated community, because speaking English is de facto an entry barrier to communities like the Fediverse, even if we like to pretend it isn't. A Spanish speaker with no English knowledge is extremely unlikely to simply stumble upon any Fediverse content.