@thor Maybe it's more of a memetic thing: that languages may be capable of spreading certain ideas more quickly than others depending on specialized vocabulary.
A thread on Reddit made me realise that people who are monolingual don't know how being bilingual affects your inner monologue. The answer? It switches back and forth. Makes me a bit skeptical of the Saphir-Worf hypothesis to be frank, because I can think about something and instantly speak of it in either language. Also, I often have an abstract idea in my head before I can remember the word for it. That's symbolic thinking without language, isn't it?
And 52% of them are on the three big Japanese instances (pawoo.net, mstdn.jp, friends.nico). That percentage is down from a peak near 54% earlier, but if you throw in all the other Japanese instances (which are most instances, overall), that side of the network remains a large majority of Mastodon and likely a bare majority of the entire "fediverse." https://mstdn.io/media/ROqRZTsUmbaVq5QHXPk