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.
I look for national communities to discuss topic relevant to my country, other than that I’m all for the broader reach allowed by a more international approach.
Yes I’m excluding those that don’t speak English in 2024, but that’s just an accidental plus.
why would that be a plus?
It was a bit of a joke, but also English is very accessible these days and lacking a basic knowledge of it is more a matter of lack of interest for the maters of the world at large than being deprived of the chance to learn it.
I’d be excluding way more people speaking in my native languadge anyway.