40 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 21 Apr 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
As a non-native-english person: we have big communities outside of the usual stuff that people in the US know about. This is mainly because when you are default English, the apps won't suggest to you anything in a different language (even when there is a huge amount of content).
For example if you set your language to non-english on Twitter, you will only get content and posts in that language, there are famous people, influencers, memers, podcasts, the whole deal. There are also social networks that are not at all used in the US...
I'd say like 80% of people don't feel comfortable contributing in English and in some countries it's actually frown upon to talk in English (maybe surprisingly, but France is an example...). And this is actually including people in tech...
I like the idea of introducing a bar with sats :)
Interesting perspective, a language filter on SN could probably accomplish something similar to what Twitter has... users could set default languages in their profile & only ever see posts in the languages they select... without needing to create entirely new subs for each specific language
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Btw, the one interesting aspect that I just realized is that the non-english podcasters, authors, etc are often doing the work of bringing the English content into their own language. Since majority of the dev in Bitcoin (and generally) happens in English, this means that the non-english authors are doing the job of filtering the content and finding the most interesting pieces.
So this then results in overall higher quality content in non-english in comparison to English. There is less noise, less manipulation, less content with agenda that tries to sell something to you. Also all major tech News webs have agreement with the companies to not leak info early - so the non-english sources tend to have more details earlier... I wonder if this is just my experience though. So while I'm fully capable of reading the English content, sometimes I just get more from my language content...
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