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.
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
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.
Seems like a reasonable stance on the matter!