{ "greeting": "Hello.", "introduction": "My name is Inigo Montoya.", "relevant personal link": "You flabbered my gast.", "expectation": "Prepare to die." }
I learned how to type on a real (i.e. mechanical) typewriter, so every program I've written is strongly typed, regardless of what programming language it's written in.
The largest community can afford to be ignorant of the others, and the others are forced to adapt. There's no easy fix and the whole situation is a fuck.
The situation would improve if the international community could agree on a common language that isn't the national language of any real place, but native English speakers (from a place that is not the USA) cannot flee and are basically fucked.
Now it's very easy to conclude from this that Americans are respectless assholes who are stealing our online spaces, but the real problem is that the internal language of a very big and well-represented country is also the internal language of several less well-represented countries, plus an international community of second-language speakers. And when they mix because geographically separate places can now inhibit the same virtual space online, there's friction.
"What a lovely international community we're having here."
After mass onboarding:
"Of course we mean the American government when we say "government". We're just Americans speaking amongst ourselves here, after all. And although we're happy to have you as guests, you really should stop complaining about this."
@goatsarah Yeah. There will probably be a software split as well, seeing as Eugen is firmly in the Meta camp. I hope we can limit the damage from this.
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