I've wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.
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Itβs because Iβm specifically learning German and the universe shifted to my will. The universe created feddit.org to give me a clear path to achieve my goal of befriending Germans.
This only happpened because me, Tischbier, decided to take an interest in Germany.
Youβre welcome.
(Joking aside, I noticed on Reddit before I left and before I started to learn German, that ich_irl was hitting the front page a lot too. My family decided to learn German together probably in part because of how funny Germans are. I watch German YouTubers now too (Spacefrogs and Staiy). Germany is a pretty big country and I think them the top leader of the free world! I have enjoyed reading the actual Germans takes on this topic. Prost!)
What's a Weeaboo, only for Germans? Duetchaboo?
We can be more creative than that
Bratwurstboo
DΓΆnerboo
We can do better
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Ist dreddit rekrutierend?
One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
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When we were doing the reddit space stuff, Germany let us put a german instance on their train
Might've been feddit.org, don't remember
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)
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In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better
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No idea WTF is happening on ich iel half the time but it seems hilarious.
Neither have I, and I'm German. But that's part of why it's so appealing
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Itβs more efficient to gather in one place
Germany is also 2nd for self hosters, after US. According to a self hosting survey.
Can you link me to that survey? I'd like to share that with a friend if you would be so kind.
Of course!
https://selfh.st/survey/2024-results/
It is a great self hosting resource: https://selfh.st/
German subs were really big on Reddit, too.
Germany is the second largest country in Europe by population, they don't really have their own social media like e.g. Russia or China and they're much better at English than most other big countries that are not already English native speakers.
To be clear, native Germans are far better at English than most Americans are at this point.
Depends on the age group imo.
I think the people who experienced internet from ca. 2005-2015 will have the best English on average. Because in this time English was simply necessary to get a grip on a lot of media, games, websites... Now a lot of things are translated, sometimes by force (youtube, reddit...) and with bad auto-translation. Also German content creators became much more widespread since 2015, so now people might never need to look past their language horizon.
Of course the dates and statements aren't absolutes, just general observations.
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I mean, many Germans might read and write English well, but their pronounciaton ...
Ship captain on the radio: "Mayday, mayday. We are sinking!"
German coast guard: "What are you sinkin about?"
Jokes aside, honestly, I have not hear much bad English here in Germany. Then again, I guess I don't hear many people speak.
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better at English
It's been a while since you've been in a video conference with Germans speaking English, hasn't it? /j
EDIT: line break
My pronounciation is awful, too, but that doesn't matter on lemmy!
And I'm still convinced that an English-language video conference with Germans is usually going to be better than with French people.
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Gotta use two newlines with Lemmy's markdown, else it ignores it and then your comment comes out lookin a lil goofy
But with a second newline it's fine
Or in other words: Use paragraphs.
Line-breaks are ignored. (Unless you use backslash or double spaces at the end - which in this case would still not break off of being a quote).
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It happens, things become more popular in some countries than others ,and Germany has 80+ million people so it's not that small.
What I'm more surprised with is almost no content in Spanish, either from Spain or Latin America, just because of the number of speakers. I mean Hindi and Chinese are spoken by more people, but they tend to have their own software ecosystems.
I guess the question is, what are Spanish speakers using for social media
Spanish user here; I tend to avoid spanish speaking reddit, because they lean heavily towards neoliberal or the right in there.
So just like English-speaking Reddit, then.
They're quite active on Reddit. It seems that the Fediverse didn't resonate as much as with English speaking Redditors.
Have we told them about it in Spanish?
Lots of Spanish speakers also speak some English but also lots of them don't. Some outreach in different languages might be a good idea.
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As a kind of unique exception ([email protected] being the other one), the mods of /r/ich_iel pointed out to feddit.de (previous version of feddit.org) in a pinned post: https://old.reddit.com/r/ich_iel/comments/14d65o7/%C3%B6ffentliche_dienstmeldung_%C3%A4nderung_der/
Compare this to all of the other country/regional subs who would remove similar posts for "self promotion", and you get why the German population was guided here instead of having to hear it from an second level comment on a Sunday thread
That might be why Star Trek is so huge here. The largest Star Trek meme sub (/r/Risa) has also had a pinned post pointing to Lemmy since during the Reddit API migration.
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Tho the r/de mods have this exact problem in recent times.
Oh, I'm sure the /r/Canada, /r/France and all of the others are the same.
The /R/buyfromEU mods still haven't added any link to the [email protected] in their pinned post
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.
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