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Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy?

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  • U [email protected]

    What's CCC?

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club

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    • sbf@feddit.orgS [email protected]

      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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      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...

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      • sbf@feddit.orgS [email protected]

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

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        • S [email protected]

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

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          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.

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          • T [email protected]

            It’s because I’m 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.

            You’re 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!)

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            The universe created Feddit.org

            Actually Feddit.org is only a follow up instance. Originally there was an instance called Feddit.de, which was basically the same as Feddit.org. however, last year the only admin travelled to south-asia and went missing. To this day no one knows what happened to him. In his absence the pictrs box of the instance overflowed causing image uploads to not work anymore. As time goes on the instance started to get more and more unreliable. It started getting downtimes, federation didnt work anymore. After months of seeing the instance degrade the community started to take matters into the own hands and create a new instance. However it was clear, that there shouldn't be a single admin in order to not have the same problem as before. After some time where we considered creating an own association to care for the instance we decided, to instead hit up the "Fediverse foundation" which are now hosting Feddit.org

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club

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              Thank you

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                Thank you

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                More content than you ever could consume:

                https://media.ccc.de/

                It's from all their camps, workshops, Erfa's (Erfahrungsaustauschkreis) and especially the annual Chaos Communication Congress which is huge and attracts the scene worldwide.

                The last congress was named 38C3: Illegal Instructions if you want to search on their media hub. A lot of the talks are in english.

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                • crackhappy@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                  To be clear, native Germans are far better at English than most Americans are at this point.

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                  I've only ever spoken to highly intellectual Germans who spoke perfect English, but I've spoken to thousands if not more than a million of the most concavebrain moronic Americans imaginable.

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                  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgC [email protected]

                    The universe created Feddit.org

                    Actually Feddit.org is only a follow up instance. Originally there was an instance called Feddit.de, which was basically the same as Feddit.org. however, last year the only admin travelled to south-asia and went missing. To this day no one knows what happened to him. In his absence the pictrs box of the instance overflowed causing image uploads to not work anymore. As time goes on the instance started to get more and more unreliable. It started getting downtimes, federation didnt work anymore. After months of seeing the instance degrade the community started to take matters into the own hands and create a new instance. However it was clear, that there shouldn't be a single admin in order to not have the same problem as before. After some time where we considered creating an own association to care for the instance we decided, to instead hit up the "Fediverse foundation" which are now hosting Feddit.org

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                    How many admins feddit.org has and is there a policy prohibiting them from traveling to South-Asia together?

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                    • T [email protected]

                      How many admins feddit.org has and is there a policy prohibiting them from traveling to South-Asia together?

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                      There are 3 admins including myself from the Lemmy side and one from the foundation.

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