Because there are many Germans on Lemmy.
Hallo
surprise germans 🫨
Nobody expects the German inquisition,!
Finde ich richtig gut, ja
i may or may not be german as well 🫣
Achtung!
🤫🤫🤫
Wie ghets?
Tag!
Des heißt servus, zefix!
That’s a bingo!
Yes but why specifically german? Is the founder german?
Not sure what the core reason is, but Reddit also had a big German population.
I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might have been disproportionately migrating during the reddit exodus.
I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might
3rd Reich then east Germany gave Germany a hard lesson about privacy, so indeed they’re very sensitive to that topic
not that the recent governments care, they want to centralize most of the data of citizens now with pretty poor protections in a lot of cases. sads
Having the data is one thing, using data for genocide and oppression is whole different issue.
But despite all that history, Germans will blindly support Israel
sadly, data that is too centralized and easily available will always be abused at some point. the recent US developments are showing this nicely.
Sounds plausible
Two reasons, Germans are very privacy focused and at the same time pretty tech affine. Also, sprich Deutsch du Huso
The guy who made Mastodon is German, so maybe that was a fediverse on-ramp.
But what if a lot of them are Austrians in disguise!
German community was huge on reddit. There were also a lot of users that were unhappy with the biggest german subreddit and reddit in general.
I guess quite a lot jumped ship when reddit started banning third party apps.
On point!
- there are many germans on reddit
- germans tend to be more privacy aware in my opinion
- and I also think Germany has a large and very dedicated open source community.
- then there are just many german speaking people. lemmy is popular in the west and together with austria and switzerland (and some other areas) you have almost 100 million native speakers.
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I want to read the German language posts. Is there a translate button on Lemmy? I tried the “Select Language” button but nothing happened.
The problem is, that a lot of the more memey communities are using Zangendeutsch, which is basically militantly and very literally translating English words into German. Translation tools will have a hard time translating those correctly
“Select language” is to mark the language you are using in your posts and comments. Don’t know for what, maybe for others to filter stuff out?
You’ll have to read in German…
Firefox has a built in translator, and there are add-ons you can install if you want a different version. Won’t work on image posts though
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
That’s a Zionist server
oh, is it? 👀
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
I thought it was Finland
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
I MIGHT be misrembering. Shortly after Luigi Mangione was wrongly accused of having done nothing, admins said they would be removing any content that glorified violence and were required to do so under Dutch law.
I’m going off of the IP tracing
Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame
Dieser Faden ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Because they can.
I can’t read a single word of german but I’m glad to randomly stumble on a german post.
Makes the fediverse more pluralist.
It is possible to block all of the primarily foreign language communities, but the bad news is you have to do it one at a time. When I see posts from a community in a language I do not speak, I block it so it does not clutter my feed.
Usually they are entire instances and you can just block an instance.
I have looked and not found that option.
What are you using
We are legion for we are many?!
There are literally dozens of them.
Must be all the German people.
Denn Lemmy ist sehr gut but not very good
Because Germans are more educated and has a higher level of consciousness than Americans
…and has more educationer, languagely.
Idk but I need to learn German. A goth German wife sounds pretty nice. She can sing Die Arbeiter von Wien to me.
