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I don't speak Esperanto yet but I think it might be a good thing to have a community for, given the language's internationalist nature and its historical connections to left-wing politics. If you look for federated Esperanto communities, one of them is basically locked because they moved instances, and the other is dead as a doornail.

An Esperanto comm could be used to talk about Esperanto history and culture and news from Esperantujo, or help people learn the language, or people could discuss language politics, et cetera, all in Esperanto. Hexbear does have that weird thing where it won't let you post if you say that your post is in a language other than English, though.

An alternative might be to see if there are any Esperantist instances we can federate with.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Two points:

  1. Esperanto is extremely Eurocentric and white in nature and in history. It seems to be a dying community and not all that useful. I’d much rather have a toki pona community and we could all learn that together.

  2. I’m pretty sure there is an Esperanto instance which I would support federation with.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Esperanto is extremely Eurocentric

It gets too much shit for this, IMO

The two choice were:

  • be similar to the world's largest language-family, so that speakers of that family pick it up quicker

  • be distant from all languages, so that nobody picks it up extra quickly

The alternative to making speakers-of-european-languages winners was making everybody everywhere losers

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