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

submitted 22 hours 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] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just a guess. Because Germans are using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Mind. Blown.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago

Germans are low key into cool cultures

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

I've wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.

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