Fediverse by Language

When filtering by language, we only show apps that specifically support certain languages.

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Notes

Once the end user has selected “language” as their primary decision point, I’ve removed any service that doesn’t explicitly centre one or more languages. While there might be other generic service providers that would meet this user’s needs, by filtering and only showing providers that are known to solidly support the language preference, we provide some curated decision support and are leaning into the user preference that language is their most important decision point.

If we had an app that picked up the preferred language from the browser or OS, we could skip this and go straight to “pick a country” or “pick a topic”.

I have explicitly not added the English exonym for each language; the intent is to serve native speakers, so only the endonym is used.

I’m tempted to remove English as an option, and make this the “languages other than English” picker, as my personal belief is that end users who signal that language is their most important decision point are probably not native monoglot English speakers, but I need to find a way to test this theory.

Alternatively, I can add “Language-agnostic” (edit: I added this) as a label to every server that is not expressly supporting a specific language. As of writing any locale-focussed servers have their locale’s primary languages added, including English-speaking, so britishcity.social has English set, but generic.social doesn’t, which may not be ideal.