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Popularization of Lemmy among non-english speaking users (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Slow to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What ways do you know to attract users?

Perhaps there are those here who have been with Lemmy since its inception. It’s interesting to hear your experience in promoting your community or instance.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but for example people from South America

/me raises hand

That said I think that it's better to create instances for languages than countries. Three reasons:

It's language that dictates availability of a piece of content for the user.
It encourages linguistic minorities to help us to grow the Fediverse. Reddit doesn't give a fuck about them because they aren't profitable merchandise=users for its customers=advertisers, but Lemmy isn't bound to that.
Some people would rather use their L2, L3 etc.

A good example of that is feddit.de - note how the instance targets German speakers, not people from Germany.

[–] ToroidalX@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's actually a very good idea. Language communities! So people could find a lot of content and not be separated by country

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I love the internet because of the globalization. I can talk to people all over the world. Even without your good arguments, I'd consider it a loss if we divided that into nations.