Ask Lemmy

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

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*

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.

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.

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?

It depends if your post is cool.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I don't worry about such things.