What do non-native English speakers do here with regards to language? You just post in English and life goes on? It makes more sense, since no one I know from my country is here, but this way no one from my country will join and interact with me.

@frederico a couple accounts I follow switch, some post in non-English and I try to figure out the message. /cc @atog and @kulturnation for their opinions.

@kulturnation @kitt , I see. Yes, I have no problem at all posting in English, the thing is bringing people to use micro.blog when most of my friends, even if they understand English, wouldn’t feel comfortable having to express themselves in a foreign language, as it’s much easier to understand than to write and I think this poses a barrier even stronger than nationalism.

@kitt @frederico @atog @kulturnation I think @ton posted thoughts about this recently(?), too.

FWIW, as a native English speaker, I feel everyone should post in whatever language makes them most comfortable. If someone wants to switch based on topic or members of the conversation, that’s fine. If they want to stick with their native language, that’s fine, too.

(I tend to follow people that post text mostly in English because my French and Arabic are pretty poor anymore, but I do follow some people who post in English and in their native language, at least one French-only poster, and a few people who post mostly photos but what little text they post is not English.)

It does feel like a catch-22 at the moment, though; there aren’t many large non-English-writing comunities here yet, so those people who are here post mostly in English, which makes it hard to build a non-English-writing community :-( Some improved discovery around posting language seems important.

@frederico @kitt @frederico @kulturnation @ton @smokey I always post in dutch unless I can bring something to table in an english conversation. Because if I don’t post in dutch, who will? 😉 I personally don’t mind following different languages.

@kulturnation I love your suggestion to @manton about different language tags. One reason I love the CMS I use (Grav) is easy multi-language support. Not that I'm currently using it, but I like the option to write an en.md and de.md and fr.md should I choose to do so.

@rosemaryorchard I’m using a different, DB-based CMS right now, but I am a bit curious about Grav, having seen the landing page…

@rosemaryorchard As a nerd, a language 'setting' appeals to me but I wonder if the more user-friendly approach isn't to do what Mastodon does and have the system detect the language and allow users to choose which languages they want to see. Would potentially be helpful for search and discovery. /cc @kulturnation @manton

@benhager I like it. It's flexible, lightweight, and easy to put my own stuff into (the frontend is Twig, backend is PHP).