Ask Lemmy

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.

We accept everyone here*

If I can't read what's in it I'll just keep scrolling.

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.

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.

It depends if your post is cool.

I'm happy to see posts from other than USian, EU, CAN. And I'm just one Lem.

Try some and let's find out.

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.

Uh, welcome?

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.

I am

There seems to be a popular community ich_el I think. For German memes... I don't understand a word of it but it has multiple posts a day.

I looked it up https://feddit.org/c/ich_iel

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.

I mean it's a anonymous social media, so I don't know how people can be unaccepting or accepting, rather it's a matter of are there enough users from your country

There's a French community or two hanging in there, and I sometimes see German or Greek. Surprisingly little Russian or Japanese compared to the rest of what I see of fedi, but I don't think it's got anything to do with people being "accepting" of other languages or cultures — it's just a matter of people who want to use them reaching some kind of critical mass.

Since it's federated, as long as it isn't bannable, it should be fine for the most part.

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?

I don't worry about such things.

My experience with Lemmy.ca is that it is mostly about american politics. It might be my subscriptions though, not sure.

Seeing the overwhelming amount of acceptance in the other comments is amazing. But I do need to play advocate of the devil for a second here, and mention moderation.

I assume this concent will not be in English.

But if the existing moderators do not speak the language of the content, then they cannot effectively moderate. This makes it a massive risk to allow non-english content on your instance with only English speaking moderators. Hence, I would only recommend posting such concent to instances that are natively speaking the language. For example, German and Dutch content almost exclusively exists on German and Dutch instances respectively.

Sounds like you just said "how 'bout them brown people "?!