• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) [alt: 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui)]@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    1 day 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.

    • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      1 day 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·
          1 day 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·
    1 day 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
    11·
    1 day 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
    8·
    1 day 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.

  • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 day 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.