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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What country do you live in: Germany, United States, Brazil, other

What? Weird survey options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I didn't see that question, but all 3 of those countries seem to rank pretty high on the country demographics for FOSS that I've seen (as in when individual FOSS projects do demographics surveys of their users)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It has always been

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

could just be the countries with the most users or where they've seen a recent trend, up or down, in local market share.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Very weird, because it's not sorted alphabetically. That means there is a bias in the sorting, because the first option is default and the best option for most users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are sorted at random for each visitor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh I meant this as a joke, to place Germany as the best answer.^^ But regardless, good to know its random. Probably doesn't even matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

𝔅𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫 𝔖𝔦𝔢 ℑ𝔥𝔯𝔢 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔨 𝔞𝔫 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔨 𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔯ä𝔷𝔦𝔰𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔨𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔨𝔱𝔦𝔳. 𝔄𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔰 𝔪ü𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔦𝔯 𝔖𝔦𝔢 𝔞𝔲𝔣 𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔱𝔷𝔢𝔫. 𝔉𝔞𝔵 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔟𝔰𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔱, 𝔜𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔢.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Someone being funny? BUG

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Data retention would be my guess.