New Entries
Gauchiasses [jlai.lu], up 9.37% to 61, (22 posts, 18 recent)
Jeux Vidéo [jlai.lu], up 9.02% to 102, (16 posts, 13 recent)
Bonne Bouffe [jlai.lu], up 5.18% to 67, (12 posts, 8 recent)
Finances [jlai.lu], up 2.42% to 189, (19 posts, 7 recent)
Animemes [ani.social], up 0.85% to 107, (11 posts, 6 recent)
Smart Homes [feddit.uk], up 0.44% to 148, (9 posts, 2 recent)
Gardening [thegarden.land], up 0.41% to 2026, (127 posts, 10 recent)
Woodworking [lemmy.ca], up 0.28% to 4259, (139 posts, 12 recent)
Starfield [lemmy.zip], up 0.27% to 1101, (51 posts, 3 recent)
me_irl - selfies of the soul [discuss.tchncs.de], up 0.26% to 213, (22 posts, 9 recent)
Video Game Grooves [lemm.ee], up 0.24% to 42, (25 posts, 5 recent)
Previously featured
Cyanide and Happiness [lemm.ee], up 57.97% to 781, (18 posts, 7 recent)
Murdered by Words [feddit.uk], up 16.11% to 401, (7 posts, 3 recent)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ [lemmy.dbzer0.com], up 5.90% to 39967, (1168 posts, 86 recent)
The Onion [midwest.social], up 5.24% to 662, (34 posts, 3 recent)
SteamDeckPirates [lemmy.dbzer0.com], up 4.61% to 751, (7 posts, 2 recent)
> Greentext [lemmy.ml], up 4.58% to 4017, (152 posts, 43 recent)
Terrible Estate Agent Photos [feddit.uk], up 4.36% to 3916, (54 posts, 9 recent)
France [jlai.lu], up 3.38% to 963, (279 posts, 142 recent)
Roadcam [lemmy.ca], up 2.73% to 131, (28 posts, 21 recent)
Personal Finance [lemmy.ml], up 2.21% to 2078, (44 posts, 11 recent)
Squirrels [lemmy.ca], up 2.12% to 81, (21 posts, 10 recent)
artporn [lemm.ee], up 2.10% to 1340, (222 posts, 43 recent)
The Far Side [sh.itjust.works], up 1.83% to 2393, (147 posts, 22 recent)
Imaginary Dilapidation and Degradation [lemm.ee], up 1.68% to 97, (12 posts, 6 recent)
Banned Book Club [literature.cafe], up 1.62% to 247, (21 posts, 5 recent)
Weird & Oddly Specific Playlists [sh.itjust.works], up 1.45% to 402, (37 posts, 7 recent)
Piracy [lemmy.ml], up 1.33% to 18843, (398 posts, 6 recent)
Fiction Books [literature.cafe], up 1.14% to 125, (7 posts, 4 recent)
Firefox [lemmy.ml], up 0.89% to 12413, (423 posts, 24 recent)
Stoner Memes [lemmy.beyondcombustion.net], up 0.88% to 363, (91 posts, 9 recent)
Imaginary Wastelands and Ruins [lemm.ee], up 0.84% to 266, (25 posts, 5 recent)
Curated Tumblr [sh.itjust.works], up 0.84% to 1771, (74 posts, 8 recent)
Privacy [lemmy.ml], up 0.78% to 21129, (2557 posts, 44 recent)
Movies and TV Shows [lemmy.film], up 0.74% to 10679, (753 posts, 58 recent)
CrackWatch [lemmy.dbzer0.com], up 0.72% to 1908, (89 posts, 32 recent)
Trending Communities [feddit.nl], up 0.67% to 2003, (36 posts, 6 recent)
Linux [lemmy.ml], up 0.58% to 34943, (3154 posts, 101 recent)
Asklemmy [lemmy.ml], up 0.58% to 35992, (2979 posts, 79 recent)
Games [sh.itjust.works], up 0.54% to 11140, (1503 posts, 88 recent)
Memes [lemmy.ml], up 0.53% to 35341, (7530 posts, 236 recent)
LoseIt: Lose the Fat [discuss.tchncs.de], up 0.52% to 613, (48 posts, 3 recent)
Spoilers [mtgzone.com], up 0.51% to 338, (152 posts, 28 recent)
Programming [programming.dev], up 0.47% to 11270, (394 posts, 13 recent)
Programmer Humor [lemmy.ml], up 0.47% to 25209, (955 posts, 25 recent)
Avelon App [lemm.ee], up 0.44% to 280, (30 posts, 9 recent)
Technology [lemmy.ml], up 0.42% to 28953, (3354 posts, 55 recent)
MovieSnob [lemmy.film], up 0.42% to 363, (37 posts, 3 recent)
World News [lemmy.ml], up 0.41% to 27014, (6230 posts, 234 recent)
90s TV [lemmy.sdf.org], up 0.32% to 576, (137 posts, 10 recent)
Results are averaged over the past 7 days
French Lemmy is doing well. It's good to see people use Lemmy to build Communities and post in their own language.
I'm not sure that allowing 'unspecified' as a language was ever a good idea though. It means people can use that, post in whatever language they want, and mods have to take extra steps to confirm it's not the most incendiary thing ever. Also, for instances like jlai.lu, it means some posts are visible, some aren't, and it makes it harder to deduce why. I assume it exists because if you're building an app or a frontend, language support is one of those boring things that gets added later.
(I wrote this listening to "Ecco the Dolphin Defender of the Future Music: Dolphin's Intrigue" from [email protected] - it's oddly terrifying)
I'll be honest, I don't really see why we can select a language in the first place. I guess it's because Mastodon has it?
Perhaps. It maybe guards against assumptions that English should be a default language, and that there are implicit rules that everyone should be using it on the Internet. Tagging a comment as 'English' might seem a bit redundant, but it normalises the idea of commenting in other languages.
Also, it provides a mechanism to hide posts from you that you wouldn't understand (although it's probably endless debatable about whether such posts should be hidden)
More important than all of this though, is that I saw an untagged comment the other day, written in Hebrew, and if they'd tagged it and I'd not seen it, I wouldn't have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to translate it from Star Wars Aurebesh.