I use Mastodon and it has all languages. Some instances have a Translate service built in. I also have a continual interest in a couple of non-english speaking cultures and use a translate addon in my browser when necessary. In 2025, there is no reason to limit yourself to your native language, even if you don’t speak any other language. The Internet connects us all, if you want it to.
Not the people behind the great Chinese firewall. Both on Lemmy and Mastodon there are practically no Chinese or Korean instances. For some reason Japan is an exception.
We do have chinese users using Vpn most likely
But have you seen many instances where the chinese language is the main language?
Sometimes you just have to dig. https://mastodonservers.net/servers/chinese
In the last 5 yrs, I travelled to a total of ~10 different countries with completely different cultural backgrounds from different contients. I see different internet apps and youtube in different languages but disagree that they are “different” at all.
Every country has their own CashApp to send money by phone to people & shops. Also have their own WhatsApp/WeChat/Line/Facebook/Local-Twitter/local-Tinder/Billibi/Local-Amazon or online shopping store/Tiltok/redapp/ etc… Similarly Youtube’s front pages in every country I visit is 50% Gaming/AI Slop with sexual clickbaits or 50% Mr.Breast/ishowspeed/gossip-style celebrity who is -Insert Countey’s Language Here- and in their early 20s capturing and targetting Gen-Alpha ADHD attention span with red arrows pointing to shocked O face thumbnails.
So I disagree with the article. Sadly what captures the attention of or a 3 yr-old indian kid whose parents left him with an iPad, and what makes him laugh is the Annoying Orange, or Ryan and Vlad and his sister Anastasia, who if you look it up has (or her parents really) ammassed a fortune of over $1billion before she even turns 8 yr olds. There are local copycat kid-celebrities like them in every fucking country I visit. This child attention exploitation business model is too good. And internet all over the world is getting enshitified the same. That is however different than to understand or know the internet culture of each country which is not the same off course. In pakistan they sell AK47s on facebook, in yemen they sell drugs on twitter, in Bali they openly advertise escorts on twitter, in mynamar they were selling genocide on facebook, and israel is doing that now all ovet their internet and social media, and many if not most countries employ government spies and shills on these websites for censorship. … so I guess all the different goals but same means
This is really fascinating. I wonder if the shorter videos in Hindi is related to internet connection speed.
So, in 2024 we examined language-specific samples of English, Hindi, Russian and Spanish YouTube, working with native speakers to validate our language detection tools.
I hope they’ll broaden this in the future to include less widely spoken languages.
We’re building businesses, journalism and regulation on an artificially limited view of the internet, one often filtered through English, popularity and convenience. It’s time we looked deeper.
It’s beyond time. Whatever about the internet, we have narrow views of ourselves and each other that is a barrier to tolerance.
This is a really interesting thing about these larger websites is that each of us see our own personalized version that others don’t. On TikTok at least this is talked about with stupid names like BookTok, WitchTok, MomTok but its true on everything. The danger is that we think we are seeing the same internet as others and assume we are all in the same bubble. Language is a huge one but the algorithms are driving most of it.
Does it also related to something like some side of internet that “I didn’t want to see”, keep coming back despite the danger of the content it shows? And when we complain about it (even it some private realm like group chats or just want to hear friend’s opinion), some users think we are just “too soft” for it (despite the Brainrotting behavior of today’s algorithm)
Yes 100% whatever keeps the child clicking, and it’s the same everywhere
I disagree. This is way more interesting than “mildly”. “Very”, even.
I find this mildly interesting because I already knew this. But I also don’t want to go copy paste text every post I see so I am browsing English Internet
Not gonna lie, this is a big reason why I’m learning Russian. I like to pirate things, look at silly memes, and watch dumb videos, and I also just like the sound of it. A match made in internet heaven.
It’s funny to me, though, that LiveJournal is used for intellectual/political discourse in Russia since I mostly know it as a place for shitposts, emo diary entries, and erotic fanfiction.
That was super interesting. Thanks!
