>>2479664>Its about soft power.not necessarily, and a lingua franca for all humanity is good regardless. mandarin isn't an option because learning sinograms isn't a realistic prospect (hsk3 myself) for most people. esperanto wasn't made for the internet or casual conversation in general - it was made for international contracts and documents, it is too verbose and unnatural
>Reddit is full of Burgers. So is stuff like BlueSky, YouTube…>Pop culture – it's so UnitedStatesian.this says more about your media diet than anything else. america doesn't have even a fraction of the grip it had over pop culture 20 years ago. hell, most of the slop on streaming platforms isn't even american anymore because hollywood is too expensive
>All significant social media is Californian.this is the only real problem but in the grand scheme of things it is practically insignificant
>Contributing to localizing sites and other projects is also important.wrong. what happens if you have a problem with localized software? you can't access the knowledge base from the other communities anymore because you are using a different terminology. translating everything, be it with humans or ai, would be a massive waste of time and resources