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?
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.
What’s CCC?
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.
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.
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
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.
Tengo naranjas grandes para el oso y dos gardenias para ti.
Soy gringo… Mi español no es bueno, pero no creo que eso sea correcto…
Soy gringo tambien. Es porqueria.
Spanish user here; I tend to avoid spanish speaking reddit, because they lean heavily towards neoliberal or the right in there.
Indeed, there’s https://feddit.cl/ and https://mujico.org/ but that’s pretty much it
It’s more efficient to gather in one place
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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/öffentliche_dienstmeldung_änderung_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
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
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
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
Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Don’t let it scare you
For once, we are not the baddies
I guess, because Most of us are nerds 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…
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
