I picked up a hobby about a year ago that has distinct regional differences around the world with people in different regions doing things quite differently and

I picked up a hobby about a year ago that has distinct regional differences around the world with people in different regions doing things quite differently and communicating almost exclusively in their own languages. There's enough commonality that you can follow things, but it's pretty hard to understand the specifics if you don't speak the same language. I've been using Google Translate to bridge the gap and while the translations miss all kinds of things, it's close enough that I can understand the important things and am able to even participate, though not at the level I can in English. There are people saying that there are essentially multiple Internets, split by language barriers. I wasn't quite sure what to make of that argument, other than it kinda made sense to me, but my personal experience through my hobby definitely made me realize it's most definitely true.