This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
I guess because English isn’t the most common language in the majority of countries.
English is the most spoken language in the world.
True only if including when spoken as a second language. Chinese and Spanish are spoken by more people as a first language than English.
Why would that matter? English has 300 million more speakers than Mandarin. India is the largest country in the world and they speak English.
So it’s just “true” period.
But why would people on Mastodon for example use English instead of their first language? That’s the point. Mastodon works different from Lemmy. When I am simply writing a sort of online diary about my research project, local politics or whatever, why would it be in English?!
Only ~15% of Indians speak English, although it is a very large country so that is enough to mean it has the second most overall (behind the USA)
Doesn’t mean most of those people want to speak English.
Ik heb zelf liever dat ik nooit Engels hoefte te spreken, but most people from the US don’t seem to understand that.