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I’m Dutch. The internet (and PCs in general) were for a long time an English first thing here in the Netherlands, except for news sites. So me not seeing Dutch content on Lemmy doesn’t bother me at all, since I’m used to only consume and engage in English on the internet. Also Dutch speaking internet communities tend to lean right, the crazy kind, so I rather avoid that.

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?

I think there are like <10 people on Lemmy who speak my native language 😅 I don't really mind just using English, though. I've always thought that languages are cool as a cultural thing, but as a pragmatic approach to day to day communication, I think it would be quite nice to just use a single language.

I'm Norwegian and we're hardly represented here at all. Nor do I actually post much content anyway.

People who use reddit/Lemmy from CZ are usually fluent in English and tech savvy. So there is no need for my language.

On the other hand on reddit there were some pretty big communities.

Bonjour. I was native english but like to read in french, however for me it’s slower to write, so I'm less likely to reply. I think we should assume more tolerance of mixed languages within discussions, that way we would see how much diversity is out there.
Actually most kids in the world - not just in Europe - grow up multilingual - , as in most of India, Africa etc. there are different local and national languages, and often mixed parents. The anglosphere is the exception, not the rule. I think the biggest challenge for the fediverse is to break out beyond Europe + North-america (+Japan - but that community is also a separate bubble), to do that we have to solve this issue.
By the way it helps to select 'scaled' as default algorithm, to see more of the smaller communities. But it would be nice to be able to blend discussion from communities from different instances relating to same (or similar) news item.

I look for national communities to discuss topic relevant to my country, other than that I'm all for the broader reach allowed by a more international approach.

Yes I'm excluding those that don't speak English in 2024, but that's just an accidental plus.

Il est un peu dommage que la communauté francophone soit si petite dans le fedivers et la fédéralisation de jlai.lu ne me semble pas bien marcher. La communauté de ma langue native (allemand) est plus grande ici, mais ils sont tous trop négatifs et les communauté anglophone sont souvent trop ricaine pour moi.

À mon avis la diversité linguistique est une bonne chose mais si l'UE décide un jour de parler une seule langue je suis d'accord avec tous les langues européenes sauf l'anglais.

Native English speaker here that is conversational in Spanish and learning Filipino.

I sometimes and interested in what people of other languages have to say, but if there is not an easy way to translate it in the app, I’ll just skip it.

Don’t really comes down to who you want your audience to be.

Since the app I use for Lemmy does not have translation built in, I’ll never read what you post in French. If it’s in Spanish, I’ll attempt to read it.