Comparatively to the rest of the internet, it seems like there are a lot more Germans here. I’ve always assumed it was just because I was on a German instance and was in a sort of echo chamber (join feddit.org btw 🥳), but I just checked Fediverse Observer and it’s the 2nd largest country by users. Additionally, the German instances seem to be the biggest non-English ones.
Why is this?
Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
I read that in Henning Wehn’s accent.
Fun facts… Henning’s accent is weird even to us Germans. And almost nobody in Germany knows him.
For once, we are not the baddies
They were also prevalent on Reddit but they’re more sensitive to the enshitification that some other countries like the USA and France are more accustomed to, so more Germans made the leap than Americans.
A lot of the internet is USA and Europe, and more recently India, just in general. China, Russia, and North Korea all heavily restrict their internet access and normal people in those countries probably don’t use english-centric online communities anyways. I’m not sure why the adoption rate seems much lower in other places, perhaps they’re still developing.
Because they’re Ger-many?
Because Ger-many Carl!
Take your upvote and fuck off. >:V
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Don’t let it scare you
We tried Big Germany once, turns out it wasn’t too popular
Maybe then it will stick.
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Funnily enough, AFAIK this is also reflected in the total webpages on the internet. There is an extraordinary amount of German webpages compared to other non-english ones.
And .de is also the third most used country code TLD. Only .cn and .tk are bigger. China is just so big and kind of has their own corner of the Internet, so that makes sense, and Tokelau is tiny but they offered free registrations to anyone for a long time.
Remember r/place ? Y’all were some colonizing mfers.
No one fucks with the Germans on r/place
And we all learned that Osu players are a bunch of cheating whores.
Mastodon was made by a german. I think that made the concept of the fediverse popular to germans.
We germans also seem to have a thing for non central organisation in anything
No idea, but I love their here cus I realized I finally had a use for Gemini! Been using it to translate the memes 😅
I don’t translate their memes, I mostly ignore them. but sometimes there’s a meme that’s close enough to English that I can understand it and those are hilarious
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
Keine ahnung.
I guess, because Most of us are needs and Love the Open source Community. In contrast to nerds of other countries, we are far more interested in talking and participating on that stuff. Just as examples see KDE, Codeberg…
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They yearn for the German federation of the 1850s.
HRE will rise again !!!
Germany has always been a big hub for Free software as a whole, for alternative communications, etc. The CCC’s presence is a big factor.
Also Germany has one of the largest populations in europe, and they tend to speak English very well unlike France/Italy/Spain.
If Lemmy is mainly made of western countries with high proportions of anglophone speakers, the prevalence of German speakers isn’t really a suprise,
What’s CCC?
Thank you
More content than you ever could consume:
It’s from all their camps, workshops, Erfa’s (Erfahrungsaustauschkreis) and especially the annual Chaos Communication Congress which is huge and attracts the scene worldwide.
The last congress was named 38C3: Illegal Instructions if you want to search on their media hub. A lot of the talks are in english.
Most of the german ones get translated the weeks after the congress
I thought CCC stands for C. C. Catch :(
Just a guess. Because Germans are using it.
Mind. Blown.
holy shit
Germans are low key into cool cultures
Then what are they doing here?
Got lost going to a rave i guess ?
