This is a website I am building as a social media for my vernacular language(Malayalam), my main reasoning being
1. Facebook has a lot of Malayalam discussions and literature but they are lost past a few days, and it is very difficult to rediscover this content.
Basically we are losing out on quality content once Facebook has decided it is not viable to show a post algorithmically.
2. For vernacular languages niche content has largely been reduced to Youtube, but still there are no platforms for discussion on these topics.
3. his might sound generic but we often hear about stories of kids chancing on content on the internet and developing a passion for a subject, what are the chances this can happen if you are not English speaking?
We can learn from China on this, even though it is a population that is largely shielded from the rest of the world, their adoption of native langauge on the internet have allowed for proliferation of all kinds content to everyone.
4. Localisation is the future. Being able to use our own language has allowed a lot of people to explode on the scene and make a living - ask tiktokers.
I am not yet done with the features, but a priority for me now is to do translations to Malayalam and get audience coming.
This is a website I am building as a social media for my vernacular language(Malayalam), my main reasoning being
1. Facebook has a lot of Malayalam discussions and literature but they are lost past a few days, and it is very difficult to rediscover this content.
Basically we are losing out on quality content once Facebook has decided it is not viable to show a post algorithmically.
2. For vernacular languages niche content has largely been reduced to Youtube, but still there are no platforms for discussion on these topics.
3. his might sound generic but we often hear about stories of kids chancing on content on the internet and developing a passion for a subject, what are the chances this can happen if you are not English speaking?
We can learn from China on this, even though it is a population that is largely shielded from the rest of the world, their adoption of native langauge on the internet have allowed for proliferation of all kinds content to everyone.
4. Localisation is the future. Being able to use our own language has allowed a lot of people to explode on the scene and make a living - ask tiktokers.
I am not yet done with the features, but a priority for me now is to do translations to Malayalam and get audience coming.