Lapis the Nevrean

This isn't a problem with any one platform, it applies to the internet at large.

Let's say you speak multiple languages, but you're only very fluent in English. Maybe you used to be fluent in one or more other languages but you haven't spoken them in a while and you're really rusty now. English wasn't even your first language. This is totally hypothetical of course, couldn't be me!

Now let's say you want to change this situation. You want to follow accounts that speak other languages to get used to hearing them again, but you're so rusty it's a pain in the butt to translate words about your hobbies that you have only ever talked about in English before. And it feels strange to sit down and purposefully seek out content since you can just browse and surf to find English content easily.

I've tried to solve this before. I found one or two Spanish speaking YouTube channels that just weren't interesting long-term, and I found some French hardware hackers on Twitter that got drowned out by the other 300 accounts I was following. It's hard to find cool stuff in other languages that you really enjoy and want to engage with when you have to deliberately go searching for it, and related content recommendations eventually lead you back to the English speaking world. It's very rare to randomly get recommended things in other languages on platforms with algorithms, even when they have mechanisms to tell them what languages you speak!

How art thou supposed to resolve this? Just sit here and twiddle thine thumbs?