• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    As an American:

    Please stay. Honestly I am sick of us. I want to lurk in South American or African or Southeastern or whatever discussions.

  • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) [alt: 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui)]@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    2 days ago

    Eh, you can post, but people might just ignore it. So you’re screaming into the void for the most part.

    I’m a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, we have a Asian Diaspora comm, but most Lemmings are white westerners, so it’s not gonna get much traction… but I mean… it’s there… I don’t think anyone has a problem with that.

    I almost never post anything in Chinese because 1.4 billion of them are behind a firewall and they’ll never find small platforms like the Fediverse.

    I’m planning to post some poetry stuff in bilingual English and Chinese, like… its good emotional release… kinda therapudic for myself using multiple languages to engage the brain’s emotions in multiple parts of the brain, only posting for personal reason tho, idc if anyone actually reads it. I don’t have any friend to share it with, my stuff would be too political for Mainland Chinese internet.

    Just post it, find the right community for it, if someone hates it, they have a block button for that community, or use word-blocking filters.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      For what it’s worth, I (pasty-faced white guy) like seeing this stuff.

      It’s just blotted out by the big (pasty-faced white guy) communities.

      I have a proposal for this, actually: community “taxonomy” so smaller subs can bubble up through bigger ones. But I need to think on it some, overcome queued executive dysfunction, and raise the suggestion on the repos.

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Eh, you can post, but people might just ignore it. So you’re screaming into the void for the most part.

      I love this analogy, and I need to expand on it.

      Lemmy is like taking a pleasant walk, with mostly chill fellow hikers, through a nature preserve, and then taking turns shouting into an empty canyon.

      Sometimes a nice and/or informative discussion follows during the hike back to the lodge for some hot cocoa.

    • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      I’m a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, we have a Asian Diaspora comm, but most Lemmings are white westerners, so it’s not gonna get much traction…

      It’s rue for most community, I would say. But it’s truer for non-English speaking one (looking at my tiny French speaking instance). We really lack a tad more users ;)

      I’m planning to post some poetry stuff in bilingual English and Chinese, like… its good emotional release… kinda therapudic for myself using multiple languages to engage the brain’s emotions in multiple parts of the brain, only posting for personal reason tho, idc if anyone actually reads it

      You can be assured I would happily read (a lot) more poetry around here. Even more if it’s not in English and even even more so if it helps me decide it’s time I start learning Chinese—something I’ve been considering for… too many years… and now feel a bit too old to do (stupid me speaking)

      In regards to readership and as a side note: I would not say I don’t care if people are reading it or not myself, but I’m ok with the idea of being my own reader. Which is one of the reasons I reopened a blog a few years ago: it helps me put some order in my head.

      Just post it, find the right community for it, if someone hates it, they have a block button for that community, or use word-blocking filters.

      This.

      Also, to the OP: Lemmy (the Fediverse) is not owned by anyone nor by a single country, or culture. So, there is not one culture that is expected to be an ‘accepting host’. We’re all sharing the same space and doing our best to make it a nice place… which can work quite well provided all of us, as individuals, are welcoming to one another ;)

        • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Thank you for your words of encouragement. I actually feel a lot better now lol, no joke.

          No excuse remaining, then. Start posting that poetry! ;)

          Ps: I meant it. I would happily read more poetry online, and I’m willing to bet my cup of morning coffee I’m not alone.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    131·
    2 days ago

    The word is “Western.” You’re asking about non-Western content, and the answer is: It is if you have more than like three members of your target audience, but that tends to be a tall ask around here.

  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
    13·
    2 days ago

    Pretty accepting.

    None of the posts I’ve seen from outside the americas and Europe are treated differently than the American and European posts

    Perhaps less engagement due to a smaller relevant audience, which you’ll also see with posts from many niche American and European communities.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
    9·
    2 days ago

    Well now us white Australasians are feeling left out. then again there is a whole subreddit dedicated to maps with out new zealand so we are sort of used to it.

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    4·
    1 day ago

    Lemmy is not a single person but a group of individuals, and although most of them seem to share the same brain, there’s still a minority of users present with differing opinions, so it’s impossible to give a conclusive answer. It’s kind of like asking Americans’ favorite color.

    I wouldn’t worry about it too much. It’s an anonymous message board - what does it matter what people think?

  • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    There’s not much content to even say if there’s resistance against them if any. I suppose people blocking contents in foreign language they can’t read counts as one though.