Me: "I want to learn German."
Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"
Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."
I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.
I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗
@_elena@mastodon.social Seeing posts in languages I don't understand is actually one of my favourite things about the Fediverse.
As an English speaker it's really easy to assume that everyone else speaks English too, but the Fediverse keeps politely reminding me that quite a few don't. ;)