Hiraeth and Hashtags: Building a Bilingual Community on the Fediverse
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Built a bilingual Mastodon community called Toot Wales that grows from a dozen early users to over ten thousand through local press, radio interviews, videos and outreach, uses Mastodon server software plus multilingual domain work and bilingual moderation, and achieves roughly 10% Welsh posts while accepting code‑switching. The project surfaces Welsh learners worldwide, relies on crowd localization tools like Crowdin, and demonstrates that the Fediverse can deliver tangible language equity and community scale.
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- 0:00Introduction and language examples
- 3:02Welsh identity and language decline
- 6:13Why the Fediverse for language equity
- 8:01Building Toot Cymru community
- 10:09Community growth and bilingualism
- 11:33Four ways to support minority languages
- 12:38Resources and Fediverse Day
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