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This is really just part of a bigger trend of tech homogenizing the culture and language across the world. Smaller languages have suffered from the dominance o

by vjk800 1y ago

This is really just part of a bigger trend of tech homogenizing the culture and language across the world. Smaller languages have suffered from the dominance of English long before AI. Most of the content in Reddit, X, or any internet platform really, is in English. All new tech is, at least initially, only in English. English language, and the culture of those who produce the English language content, dominates the world now. Especially when it comes to commercial culture. With government grants, etc. smaller languages can be propped up to some degree, but how about creating a massive block buster movie in Estonian language? Forget about it.

numpad0 1y ago
This gets annoying fast. > Most of the content in Reddit, X, or any internet platform really, is in English. All new tech is, at least initially, only in English. Content advertised into your timeline. Not content in general. Twitter had been like only 35% English, Bluesky is 30% Brazilian or something. Only Reddit is like actually >80% English because those other languages has other dominant platforms. You don't see stats like "xyz is 99% English" because every Chinese guys speak unaccented American English, it's because WWW statistics are based on and reference counts, rather than by wgeting random IP, and they start from an English URL, so discovery ends where anglosphere ends. It's not like Chinese contents actually occupy >85% of everything, just that English is not the 99.999%, but still. "American English won the great game, Earth 999.999% English" is just a collective hallucination.
- selfhoster11 1y ago
  I'm interested in only a handful of stereotypically STEM-adjacent topics. Out of 176 YouTube subscriptions, 2 of these are in my home language. And they are both musicians (= non-verbal content). Content dried up on 2 more that I've already unsubscribed from. I'm using NewPipe instead of the official UI, so I know for a fact this stuff isn't being advertised at me. I pick my own feeds, and all the best content is English-based.
  - numpad0 1y ago
    per [0]: > Put differently, English-language videos comprised just 17% of the videos that were published by popular channels during the week, but they received 28% of all of the ... or [1]: > Of the top 250 YouTube channels, 66% of the content is in English, 15% in Spanish, 7% in Portuguese, ... There's quite a distance between "all the best content in STEM field and on YouTube is in English" and "all the content is in English" and a lot of qualifiers gets in there. 0: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-youtube-channels-produced-a-vast-amount-of-content-much-of-it-in-languages-other-than-english/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-yout... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

by vjk800 1y ago

numpad0 1y ago

This gets annoying fast. > Most of the content in Reddit, X, or any internet platform really, is in English. All new tech is, at least initially, only in English. Content advertised into your timeline. Not content in general. Twitter had been like only 35% English, Bluesky is 30% Brazilian or something. Only Reddit is like actually >80% English because those other languages has other dominant platforms. You don't see stats like "xyz is 99% English" because every Chinese guys speak unaccented American English, it's because WWW statistics are based on and reference counts, rather than by wgeting random IP, and they start from an English URL, so discovery ends where anglosphere ends. It's not like Chinese contents actually occupy >85% of everything, just that English is not the 99.999%, but still. "American English won the great game, Earth 999.999% English" is just a collective hallucination.

selfhoster11 1y ago
I'm interested in only a handful of stereotypically STEM-adjacent topics. Out of 176 YouTube subscriptions, 2 of these are in my home language. And they are both musicians (= non-verbal content). Content dried up on 2 more that I've already unsubscribed from. I'm using NewPipe instead of the official UI, so I know for a fact this stuff isn't being advertised at me. I pick my own feeds, and all the best content is English-based.
- numpad0 1y ago
  per [0]: > Put differently, English-language videos comprised just 17% of the videos that were published by popular channels during the week, but they received 28% of all of the ... or [1]: > Of the top 250 YouTube channels, 66% of the content is in English, 15% in Spanish, 7% in Portuguese, ... There's quite a distance between "all the best content in STEM field and on YouTube is in English" and "all the content is in English" and a lot of qualifiers gets in there. 0: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-youtube-channels-produced-a-vast-amount-of-content-much-of-it-in-languages-other-than-english/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-yout... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet