Basically, that’s it.

I’m a French speaker, so I try to participate mainly on the French speaking communities such as [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], 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 [email protected], 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
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    9 months ago

    Hello, thank you for your work on Lemm.ee and your insight!

    As an Estonian, do you think Estonian might disappear as a language as English would become more and more prevalent in the country? I know Latvia is a bit worried about this, Latvia has lost 13% of its population in the last 20 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amqp2gU9634

    • sunaurus@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      All languages will eventually disappear, it’s just a question of timescales, right? In any case, the timescale for Estonian to disappear is for sure longer than our lifetimes (barring some apocalypse scenarios).

      I know many people are worried about Estonian disappearing some time in the future, but I’m not so sentimental about it personally. Maybe this is short-sighted, but I don’t think cultural/historical/etc things need to be kept alive artificially - if such things are useful, they will stay alive on their own merit. If not, then we can always appreciate them through history books later on.