Should someone open a language-specific language server and use the same community name, for example, open source community on thai-language-lemmy.xyz?
Should I create a community with a language on community name, for example, Thai Open Source?
I would recommend that if you are going to create a community dedicated to a Thai audience you create the name in the Thai language, rather than in English, though. For example Open Source in Spanish would be Código Abierto, and so on.
I failed to create a community named การเขียนโปรแกรมภาษารัสท์ or ภาษารัสท์. Maybe the validator doesn’t allow this. 🤔
We were talking about this in the Matrix room, to allow the use of non English characters as the name value, it’s not yet there, but maybe you could use a romanization of that as the name and use “การเขียนโปรแกรมภาษารัสท์” as the display name while it gets done?
Romanization makes the most sense overall.
We were discussing the idea of allowing non English characters so that if someone decided to create a language specific instance they could use their native characters in their communities, stepping away of how anglocentric the internet is.
Yeah it’s a tough call. The usefulness of it is obvious, but also in many cases it is so difficult to perform input on certain language even for those who regularly speak and use them. On platforms like Lemmy I will often type in the address manually, like “lemmy.ml/c/coffee” and if I had to instead type “lemmy.ml/c/قهوه” it would be a pain in the ass. I could just have Romanized قهوه as “qahve” and everything would be fine.
So if you’re willing to accept Lemmy being a bit more of a complicated mess then it’s a fine innovation. Many languages would benefit from allowing Unicode characters. And then maybe we can have communities named with emoji…
How about restricting emoji in a community name instead of allowing only Latin alphabet?
Thai-ization of Rust is รัสท์. Romanisation of รัสท์ is Rust.
Either one works, we’re happy to host communities in any language here. Making your own thai only lemmy instance, so you can have a collection of communities in thai, then federating with the wider lemmyverse is probably the better option tho. Let us know if you’d like to do that, and need any help.
I’m also planning on creating a Lemmy instance for my language and I’ve thought about naming it accordingly, but then a problem arises.
In my case, I’d be considering between lemmy.pt and lemingue.pt (lémingue being the Portuguese word for lemming). The former will objectively say that it is a Lemmy instance, while the latter might be taken as a website about lemmings by someone unaware of Lemmy.
I’ll likely end up going with lemmy.ptA Thai sever would honestly be very cool.
I want to create an instance for Thai speakers. I’m sure that people will talk about politics. I don’t how to get away from jail or death. 🤦🏾♂️
