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6 months agoas 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
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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
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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
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: