• beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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    2 months ago

    as a brazilian, i have a few ideas as to why latam participation in the survey was so low and i don’t think it has much to do with low linux usage

    1. lemmy isn’t very popular in brazil yet, even inside the brazilian fediverse. my current instance is a few months old and it is one of the first brazilian lemmy instances

    2. unlike europeans, the overwhelming majority of brazilians is monolingual. only 5% of brazilians have any level of english knowledge and 1% are proficient. even if lemmy was popular in brazil, most people wouldn’t even see the survey anyway

    i don’t know for sure about the rest of latam (and the global south for that matter), but I’m willing to bet both of these points apply

  • Nima@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    i didn’t know there was a survey or I’d have added a number to the tiny “female” bar. lol

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’d like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.

      • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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        2 months ago

        i think i know what happened: the text looks different depending on the client/interface. i first read it on thunder and it looked fine, but i’m now on lemmy web using the vanilla theme and it looks like this:

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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          2 months ago

          Yes that is the broken post preview. Click it to open the real post.

          I have no idea how to crosspost on lemmy.