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Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

EDIT: Third most used language, after English and Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember r/place ? Y'all were some colonizing mfers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

No one fucks with the Germans on r/place

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

And we all learned that Osu players are a bunch of cheating whores.