Sagan

Not sure if anyone who lives here hasn't seen it yet, but !barcelona@piefed.social is a thing.

Copy pasted from another comment, the mayor who announced the decision made it so that it would applied after the end of his tenure (that will end in 2027, the decision is supposed to happen in 2028)

The other issue is that even besides tourism, Barcelona is a very attractive city for Spanish people due to the work opportunities, and there is definitely a lack of supply for the housing market. Getting back the Airbnb would help with the mass tourism (which is an issue of its own), but the housing crisis might still be there for a while.

For more details: https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/07/22/the-end-of-airbnb-in-barcelona-what-does-the-tourism-industry-have-to-say

I live here (!barcelona@piefed.social), the mayor who announced the decision made it so that it would applied after the end of his tenure (that will end in 2027, the decision is supposed to happen in 2028)

The other issue is that even besides tourism, Barcelona is a very attractive city for Spanish people due to the work opportunities, and there is definitely a lack of supply for the housing market. Getting back the Airbnb would help with the mass tourism (which is an issue of its own), but the housing crisis might still be there for a while.

I'll switch to English as I'm a non native

As I said earlier, !esp@chachara.club is probably more generalist, and would be easier to keep active than an "English speaking community about Spanish for non native"

Let's not forget that this community was never actually active in the first place, there are 4 posts total. It was created by https://sopuli.xyz/u/hesburger who just created a bunch of communities without ever posting to them.

If we look at French, another important language, at the moment there is mostly !forumlibre@jlai.lu, mostly in French, but if someone wants to ask a question about French is possible too.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/20107838/13482776

Even English doesn't have any active dedicated community https://sopuli.xyz/search?q=English+&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

People would just ask questions on one of the generic Ask communities

If that community hadn't been created by hesburger, would anyone else think it would need to exist?

Ya veremos. Mi experiencia es que este tipo de comunidades de nicho tienen dificultades para mantenerse activas dado el tamaño actual de Lemmy, y que una comunidad más general como !esp@chachara.club será más fácil de mantener viva, pero podemos hablar de ello nuevamente en unas semanas.

Actualmente soy el principal colaborador de !barcelona@piefed.social, y había pensado en crear otra comunidad sobre la lengua catalana (!xerrameca@chachara.club), pero al final nunca llegó a despegar. Desde entonces prefiero mantener todo en !barcelona@piefed.social.

Si quieres, pero mi experiencia me dice que no hay suficiente gente en Lemmy para tener una comunidad nicho de este tipo.

Además, el hecho de que la comunidad se llame "Spanish" es un poco irónico; "espanol" probablemente sería más apropiado (y, de nuevo, !esp@chachara.club se llama "esp" precisamente por eso).

Porque no utilizar otras commuidades con activos usarios, como ?

• !actualidad@chachara.club
• !esp@chachara.club