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(DIR) Post #AlE5zPNAY9WutKmw52 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T13:24:28Z
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What are the most common languages spoken by fediverse users? My (biased) view is that they are:EnglishGermanSpanishDutchFrenchIn that order. But, how could such a survey be done? A random sample? Do you see a very different set of languages on a regular basis?
(DIR) Post #AlE6G9KvQQUq4xinh2 by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-08-22T13:27:08Z
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@futurebird For obvious reasons, my impression has an overrepresentation of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.But trying to filter from that, your view matches mine - except I'd swap French and Dutch.
(DIR) Post #AlE6JIvsCiuui1VYrA by sandortamas@mas.to
2024-08-22T13:28:05Z
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@futurebird I know about 6 hungarian speakers on the fediverse. It is hard to tell as statistics because most fedizens wanna reach wide range of readers of they're posts so they will use english for that as the most common and language to know.
(DIR) Post #AlE6fC6QHIf3thseCO by leonieke@mstdn.fenslaw.nl
2024-08-22T13:32:01Z
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@futurebird Interesting question!I think I also follow some Finnish people, which introduces me to a language completely foreign to my eyes and ears.(I am a speaker of Dutch and English, with high school level of French and German).
(DIR) Post #AlE7xlu60bKw6EXLbU by rlstone4dems@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T13:46:36Z
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@futurebird I usually only hear people speaking English and Spanish. I mean, a long time ago when I lived in Queens (Astoria), NY, I had residents there that spoke Portuguese, and few who spoke Italian. But most of the foreign speakers spoke Spanish.
(DIR) Post #AlE9QZAMXu0AwkRJxY by Red_Shirt_no2@c.im
2024-08-22T14:03:01Z
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@futurebird I see more Greek than Spanish or French
(DIR) Post #AlE9UGTlxub09GHYVU by shadowsminder@mas.to
2024-08-22T14:03:41Z
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@futurebird Assuming we're discussing languages in posts and not the languages users speak aloud through the day:Japanese English German Polish Dutch Those are my guesses. The last I read about the makeup by country, the largest sites in the Fediverse are Japanese.French and Portugese would be my next two most common languages. I rarely find Spanish. The Mexican accounts I follow usually post in English if at all.
(DIR) Post #AlEA3uI9w0RvlDqUEK by wendigo@metalhead.club
2024-08-22T14:10:04Z
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@futurebird I see these, mostly (in this order):EnglishGermanSpanish
(DIR) Post #AlEAmuHEpvTwkIs98y by namelessblob@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T14:18:15Z
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@futurebird There are some country-stats on https://fediverse.observer/stats and https://fedidb.org/ , they have fairly different numbers though. Both report that there are hundreds of Japanese servers for example.
(DIR) Post #AlECsO07wztMI0bq2S by hitsuyonai@mastodon.online
2024-08-22T14:41:33Z
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@futurebird i think there are some big japanese servers
(DIR) Post #AlEDWRbtx0Sl4CNZ8y by quincy@chaos.social
2024-08-22T14:48:52Z
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@futurebird Scrolling down 1-2h worth of my Home feed, I see an awful lot of English.Then German, French, (as those are the languages I mostly interact in), Spanish,some Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Russian, Romanian (a news site).Yesterday I saw Finnish, Welsh, Kannada, Japanese and Catalan IIRCWould be interesting to see some global stats.
(DIR) Post #AlEEwZCeRYsW6AaYNc by hagarashi8@allthingstech.social
2024-08-22T15:04:42Z
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@futurebird Japanese is probably higher than danish. At least half of popular Misskey servers are Japanese.
(DIR) Post #AlEF2e7N5Df54y19zU by mina@berlin.social
2024-08-22T15:05:39Z
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@futurebird My, equally biased, view gives me the exact same order, but the three top languages are also exactly the three languages, I speak.
(DIR) Post #AlEFTTlFhIgimESzXE by palha@dresden.network
2024-08-22T15:10:43Z
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@futurebird It depends on the server you are on and the users there. You will see more Japanese people in Japan - even in the federal timeline - than in the USA or Germany. Why is that?Because these are all posts from an account that is followed or boosted by an account from your instance. Sometimes instances also connect to a relay, in which case the public posts from the connected instances will appear in each of their federated timelines. So even if you create a statistic on the federated timeline, it will be skewed by the people on your server. So, for example, if your German-speaking instance happens to have a lot of Swahili expats speaking that language, you might come to the conclusion that the most common languages in the fediverse are from some African countries.
(DIR) Post #AlEGiyucGEE1ginojQ by brecht@social.coop
2024-08-22T15:23:31Z
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@futurebird I do think there might be a decent number of Dutch speakers on the fediverse, but we're not actually using Dutch that much on here, so hard to tell.
(DIR) Post #AlEMjvlw1JYxxpZsye by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T16:32:09Z
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@futurebird Oh, so here's a thing, on the Tusky project Google Play gives us a report of what languages people use the software inWe checked a couple months back and the top were, in order:EnglishGermanKoreanFrenchSpanishNote this is not a truly representative sample because this is sampling *only Android users*, who may bunch up by country.The Korean thing surprised me. I don't even know what the Korean fediverse looks like. I knew there's an semi-independent Japanese fediverse, but
(DIR) Post #AlEhzY9FieAiMmm10y by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-08-22T20:30:18Z
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@futurebird You'd basically have to run stats on all the posts to know this.Individual experiences will be heavily limited to who you interact with.Like, there could be ten million people using Telugu, and I'd never notice.Well, I'd notice a jump in fediverse user count, but not the language of those users.
(DIR) Post #AlElrfVerigmhIkcGu by therealkuu@chaos.social
2024-08-22T21:13:42Z
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@futurebirdhmm, also languages in bio/potentially existing sparsely in posts or quantitative in posts? (like think lang a, b, c in bio but mostly posts in a, do b, c still count, even if not (regularly or at all) posted in?)re question: i see some nordic languages and japanese too quite regularly, but nowhere near as frequent as english french and german (in that order ^^)