Please pause and consider how the British Empire exported English all over the world, often by force, leading to its privileged status among languages today. Also consider that all people have different aptitudes for learning, and even a single individual will have vastly different abilities at different times in their life.

I’m only fluent in English, but that doesn’t make other languages invalid in any way. People who don’t speak English have just as much right to enjoy the internet as I do.

There are certainly ways Lemmy could handle languages better, and I hope to see improvements. But the tool should be what does the work, not the end-users.

I feel like that’s kind of biased coming from someone who (presumably at least) natively speaks a language that is very closely related to English. You might tell me that they’re still relatively different, and you wouldn’t be completely wrong about that, but there are languages that are much more different from English than German. There isn’t such a thing as objective difficulty of a language, it’s all relative. English certainly isn’t easy for everyone.