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.
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.
I guess I just don’t care about that.
If the entire German language was abolished and replaced with English, I’d welcome it.
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.