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The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon (gadgeteer.co.za)
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[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t follow people yet but only subjects (#).

There's your problem. Find interesting people to follow in the # you are already following.

Also, Mastodon is fairly popular among countries where English isn't the most common language. Not sure why tbh.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess because English isn't the most common language in the majority of countries.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

English is the most spoken language in the world.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True only if including when spoken as a second language. Chinese and Spanish are spoken by more people as a first language than English.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would that matter? English has 300 million more speakers than Mandarin. India is the largest country in the world and they speak English.

So it's just "true" period.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

But why would people on Mastodon for example use English instead of their first language? That's the point. Mastodon works different from Lemmy. When I am simply writing a sort of online diary about my research project, local politics or whatever, why would it be in English?!

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Only ~15% of Indians speak English, although it is a very large country so that is enough to mean it has the second most overall (behind the USA)

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't mean most of those people want to speak English.

Ik heb zelf liever dat ik nooit Engels hoefte te spreken, but most people from the US don't seem to understand that.