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@andersono @Leah Mi tute ne malkonsentas ke Leah volas traduki nur virinojn de filmoj. Mi ankaŭ tute ne malkonsentas se vi, Andersono, volas traduki virojn de filmoj. Ambaŭ plibonigas mian tagon.

Saluton, Leah.

@phantasus @benny @kubofhromoslav @proedie @Pare @valhalla @EUCommission Diri ke Esperanto estas senkultura klare maltrafas kiel homaj grupoj funkcias. Ie kaj iam ajn troviĝas multaj personoj, plurfoje, tiuj grupoj kreas grupajn kulturojn. Komuna lingvo estas perilo de tiuj gruoj kaj iliaj kulturoj. Ne eblas esti alie.

#Esperanto

Mi enangliĝos por ne jam samideanoj:

To say that Esperanto is without a culture clearly misses how humans and groups function. Wherever and whenever multiple people are found repeatedly, those groups create a group culture. A common language is a tool for those groups and their cultures. It can't be otherwise.

@benny @kubofhromoslav @proedie @kinkkong @Pare @valhalla @EUCommission As a native English speaker who also knows #Esperanto, I am completely confident that English is harder than Esperanto. I personally think that Spanish is an easier language to learn than English, and Esperanto is easier than Spanish.

@benny @kubofhromoslav @proedie @kinkkong @Pare @valhalla @EUCommission From what I know of linguistics, I don't believe that it's possible to have a language that is simultaneously comprehensible by the human mind and completely neutral. There are too many linguistic features which are common to some languages and not others. Some, we could probably just dispense with, such as grammatical gender, without putting native speakers of the languages that have them at a disadvantage, but some will remain.

While there is considerable acknowledgement that #Esperanto is easier for native speakers of various European languages from which it draws it's vocabulary, it at least presents less of a disadvantage to people coming from other native languages. And the fact that it is built heavily on vocabulary common to many European languages is actual a reasonable argument for using it for international communication within Europe.

@kubofhromoslav @Pare @valhalla @EUCommission @kinkkong I say this as someone who isn't a citizen or resident of any EU country. I would love to see #Esperanto adopted as an official language in the EU. No need to make it the only official language. Just give it a foothold and start using and teaching it officially.

Mi diras tion ĉi kiel persono kiu ne estas civitano aŭ loĝanto de iu ajn EU-a lando. Mi amus vidi se la EU adoptus Esperanton kiel oficiala lingvo. Ne estas necesa fari ĝin la sola oficiala lingvo. Nur donu al ĝi piedteno kaj komencu uzi kaj instrui ĝin oficiale.

@pluralistic It's worth analyzing the growth of social media platforms through the lens of a logistic adoption curve. It doesn't fit exactly the way it does for technologies whose use is largely private. The nature of social media means that it amplifies the network effect in ways that communication technologies that are used for one-on-one communication don't. As you've pointed out, we form communities on social media that don't also exist in physical spaces. And the communication of those communities persists over time in ways that physical group interactions can't.

The problem that can't be solved technologically is the formation of those relationships and communities. No matter how good an open platform is, the technology can't create those communities. You pointed out that barriers to interoperability hinders migration, probably to the point of being impossible to overcome directly. We get users on open platforms when we invite them to come, help them do it, welcome them here, and give them reasons to visit us more often.

The network effect for social media is amplified when those of us already here create reasons for others to be here with us. It's something each of us can do. We use this platform. And we invite friends to join us. It's quite literally a situation where optimism about the value of what we have can be effective in preserving and growing it.

I've watched enshittification destroy vibrant communities on other platforms. Once people give up on those communities they can't be revived, but they can be recreated the way they originally formed. We can determine where we choose to build them.

I am here on Mastodon. I will participate in building communities here. I can contribute its growth by doing what the technology and policies can't. I can be here.