From a local community of a few thousand to isolated online community of a few hundred to a private discord server of a few to just you and AI.

These dudes are probably fluent in English.

Tbf most of those are usually either lurkers or commenters. The people who post meaningful content are usually rare. But they used to be a lot more common in the early days though, I wonder what happened.

It’s not about the platform but it’s where most of the people are. There’s just not a lot of people here, especially in relation to niche subjects.

I mean it’s pretty easy when you think about it. Like if the “far right” idea is a virus, the English language is it’s vector of infection, making it easier for ideas or memes to cross pollinate cultural between the US and UK. Some of the other EU countries have their own main language after all other than English so such spread is slower.

In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite Men has ever known isn’t microbial, it’s linguistics. Words are what keeps civilization, our world alive. Save the world not by taking Men’s lives but by taking their tongue.

A wise philosopher once said, “it is no nation that we inhabit. Nay! Our native tongue is our true fatherland!”

Sometimes it’s a nice perk if you want to play modded coop with your friends ie those from mods.

I believe actual cheating requires there to be harm done to another player be it due to unfair advantages, theft of time or other malicious activity.

I’ve lost mine to water. They drowned.

I remember that one page in Medaka Box with lots of very tiny writings in the background and being impressed that the scanlator bothered to translate those into English.

Pretty sure Vancouver is pretty walkable as well.

Most of Europe and Asia sans the very rural areas?

Unfortunately, most of those so called “small channels” are actually bots using AI content farm.