• Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y’all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others

      • maynarkh@feddit.nl
        32·
        1 year ago

        I’m from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.

        My guess is:

        • Germany is a big, populated country
        • People from DACH also gravitate towards feddit.de
        • The culture kinda gives itself to the project
        • The NL and the EU are the main funders of Lemmy
        • The government itself is embracing the Fediverse
        • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          I think one reason is the large number of German users on the Internet. With around 100 million speakers, German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English.

          According to the application texts, many users seem to come from various podcasts. We are also “endorsed” by one of the largest German-language subreddits on its front page (r/ich_iel). Our users have also started to watermark their memes, which occasionally attracts new users. Feddit also made it into an article in a popular IT magazine (heise).

      • kugel7c@feddit.de
        10·
        1 year ago

        Generally internet culture In the Dach region is very active and forward looking, and potentially ideologically aligned with the idea of Fediverse and generally FOSS software and privacy. E.g. for Wikipedia language share German got overtaken by Spanish only within the last 5 years slipping from 2nd to 3rd suggesting some early adopter and internet participation higher than the norm.

        Subjectively a lot of people here have uneasiness with big tech, and are relatively informed about alternatives.DACH on Reddit was also very big, and very ideologically opposed to API changes and general Reddit corpo behaviour. Subjectively again Dach and ich_iel felt like home when I joined, essentially like the Reddit culture I was used to, just with a little more progressive views across the board.

        Also I suspect that German language speakers are fairly active within the English speaking parts of the internet in general, while Spanish and French as well as other non Germanic languages seem to have more disdain for English language content and sites, Germans and Dutch as well as Nordics are very comfortable with English as a common language.

  • Hanabie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.

    It also doesn’t overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn’t run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).

  • rizoid@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how many of the accounts on world are ones that are just left for dead as people moved around to other instances. I myself was day one on world but the outages became too much.

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Made my first Lemmy account on Lemmy.world on the first weekend of June, but the outages of late June/early July pushed me (with some encouragement from others who’ve already made the jump earlier) to make a lemm.ee account. It was only supposed to be an alt, to be used when Lemmy.world is unusable, but the Meta fiasco then made me decide to make lemm.ee my main.

  • gridleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Of course it’s the one instance where I accidentally capitalized my username and can’t change it to a lower case letter.