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Nice observation!

A lot. Indonesian is the world’s biggest trilinguist country.

People usually speaks their local languages (there are 700+ of them), Indonesian, and other foreign language.

In my class alone there are probably 8 languages spoken by the student (usually Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Banjarese, Balinese, Indonesian, Chinese, Madurese, and so on), so they can just gossiping about things and the teacher or friends wouldn’t know anything.

It’s mostly just outdated laws that they’re have to comply with.

There are plenty of talks regarding of it between politician themselves. Especially regarding censorship.

Reddit is heavily American-centric.

At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.

Huh. My experience with Nostr is essentially similar with fediverse. As it was decentralized, everything is depends on each instance and which kind of people you follow.

Not everyone on Nostr are everything you just said. Some people are literally using it the same way as Mastodon. Just making friend and talking about random hobbies.

Mastodon right now is essentially macroblog and/or microblog. Entirely designer for different purpose than Lemmy.

Any group-based social media will have higher possibility of interaction due to easier way to find similar interest, whether Lemmy, Reddit, Facebook Group, Misskey Group, even traditional self-host forum.

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There’s distinction between targeted ads and community ads.

Mainstream internet is bad for targeted ads and for-profit site that plaster ads as maximum as possible.

Fediverse instance like Misskey.io runs ads, but all of them community ads. Letting their community promote their indie games, manga serialization, artbook release, online event gathering, etc.

Among every server that “do just fine,” there are more instances that are just gone for not having proper funding, especially for non-Western instance where paying for social media in not a common thing. I’m from Indonesian, and almost every Indonesian instance are cease to exist except for Misskey.id.

While Mastodon does not support ads, other fediverse software like Misskey support it. Misskey.io, the second biggest fedi instance after Mastodon.social, runs ads and subscription simutaniously.

Their ads is merely community ads. Letting their community promote their indie games, manga serialization, artbook release, online event gathering, etc. I think that might be replicatable for Western instance like Mastodon.art or Pixelfed.art.

The notion that Mastodon (and/or) Twitter as public conversation is not universal.

There’s a lot of people, especially in other language that use the social media as microblog or casual coversation. I’m Indonesian, and a lot of people here using Twitter as “anon” account for random rambling (basically microblog) without even interacting with anyone (except IRL friend).

Even Mastodon (and other fedi software) has feature for followers only post or quiet posting (cannot be viewed in live feed, or discovery).

Mastodon users don’t wanna be searchable

Debatable. People don’t want their private account searchable. Creators and news account want their account and their post to be discoverable.

The subscription model rarely works.

It’s not that the subscription model doesn’t work. It’s the investor that demands things to grow even more all the time. There are plenty of service that simply deliver good stuff without investor demand and ended being sustainable for years.

Fedi becomes more accepting of ads

At least, some non-Western fediverse instance runs ads. Notably the second biggest instance in fediverse, Misskey.io. Their ads are community ads, like promoting indie games, vtuber, comic books, IRL gallery event, etc. They also did subscription providing additional cosmetics like Discord. Everyone’s happy.

Twitter can reach various community from variety of region, like English Asia Twitter.

Entire fediverse is still mostly Western community.

I guess, Epic Games sales cuts seems attractive for multiplatform games with microtransaction made with Unreal Engine…

There’s plenty of store that have pricing differences even from same country. For example, Vintage Story on itch.io and Humble Bundle has higher price than the official direct purchase.

No store cut, cheaper price.

Epic Games promise cheaper games with 12% cut, but most of them have same price as Steam or even console release.

Forza Horizon 4 has 80% discount and it will get delisted this December.

All DLCs are now on simple Deluxe and Ultimate edition.

Might as well grab it before gone.

That “dumb” name is just name in another language 🫠

There’s no universal “phonetic spelling.”

Every language and its user have unique accent and they will intreprete phonitic spelling differently.

Whatever the result in, I wish there won’t be over-moderation that too Western-centric.

Not all swastika are Nazi (I live in a country where swastika is simply symbol of religion and peacefulness). Not all words that too similar with offending word in English are bad (some games literally banned Indonesian for having “nasi goreng” as their name, too similiar with Nazi they said.)