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I’m a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, we have a Asian Diaspora comm, but most Lemmings are white westerners, so it’s not gonna get much traction…

It's rue for most community, I would say. But it's truer for non-English speaking one (looking at my tiny French speaking instance). We really lack a tad more users ;)

I’m planning to post some poetry stuff in bilingual English and Chinese, like… its good emotional release… kinda therapudic for myself using multiple languages to engage the brain’s emotions in multiple parts of the brain, only posting for personal reason tho, idc if anyone actually reads it

You can be assured I would happily read (a lot) more poetry around here. Even more if it's not in English and even even more so if it helps me decide it's time I start learning Chinese—something I've been considering for... too many years... and now feel a bit too old to do (stupid me speaking)

In regards to readership and as a side note: I would not say I don't care if people are reading it or not myself, but I'm ok with the idea of being my own reader. Which is one of the reasons I reopened a blog a few years ago: it helps me put some order in my head.

Just post it, find the right community for it, if someone hates it, they have a block button for that community, or use word-blocking filters.

This.

Also, to the OP: Lemmy (the Fediverse) is not owned by anyone nor by a single country, or culture. So, there is not one culture that is expected to be an 'accepting host'. We're all sharing the same space and doing our best to make it a nice place... which can work quite well provided all of us, as individuals, are welcoming to one another ;)