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What If Medium Catered to Every Language?

Why Segregating Content by Language Might Bring Us Closer Together

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I’ve been sharing my thoughts on Medium for quite a while, only in English.

Over the years, I’ve built a following of readers who appreciate my articles, whether they’re about software engineering, personal growth, or just observations about the tech world.

But there’s always been this nagging frustration in the back of my mind — one that I believe a lot of multilingual creators share. I’m Italian, and I also speak Spanish.

I’d love to write in these languages sometimes because it connects me more authentically with parts of my identity and with potential new audiences, but every time I’ve tried, I’ve noticed a real problem: English-only readers find themselves looking at a post they can’t easily understand, and I risk losing some of them because they might see it as irrelevant noise in their feed.

This leads me to the core question: Why doesn’t Medium have a built-in language selector for readers and writers?

Sure, we can write in whatever language we want, but the platform itself doesn’t separate or neatly categorize these posts based on language preferences.