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.

  • Servais@jlai.luOP
    6·
    10 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
      32·
      10 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.luOP
        2·
        10 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.