Nothing against Germans, I’m just wondering why, outside of the English internet, it got such high adoption in Germany compared to eg. France or Spain. I see next to no French/Spanish/etc. content on here in comparison
How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb?
One. We are efficient and have no humour.
One to change it and seven to file the paperwork.
Not true.
!Actually we will automate it!< :)
off topic but i’ve never seen this tg-spoiler before, it’s much better than the normal click to dropdown one. looks good on piefed web ui but i clicked view original and it doesn’t work on your own instance
comparison
Lol.
Using Sync for Lemmy as my client.
So who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Dunno why the fediverse seemingly couldnt standardize on a certain markdown flavor.
Edit:
PS: Yours doesnt work on my client:
one of the last holdouts! More power to you! Its not been updated in almost a year now so its starting to fall apart as the api changes.
Nah, that thing was broken even in the beginning…
Problem is, that I used it for >4 years on reddit and since the first exodus and the announcement of the lemmy client I never was much in the mood to switch. And I like the interface, so theres even less reason to switch.Oh well, am I right? :P
I had to switch to summit from sync during the last major lemmy update as it was breaking to many things. I miss it though. it was by far the best client (for me) and I hope dawson randomly appears with a patch that fixes everything… but his last post is over a year old and last major update much older lol.
If its still working for what you use it for good on you! im jealous!
May I ask whats broken for you?
And always on the wrong side of history
Wasn’t also /r/ich_iel a big part of the reddit exodus at one point?
Their reddit automod promots Lemmy on every post iirc
Most of us speak pretty good English and German media absolutely sucks ass, so many people choose to exclusively hang out in English-speaking spheres i guess
luckily many Germans learn some English at school, also the languages seem really closely related.
I would guess because simply historically, we always were very private people. This was generally increased with the experiences during the second world war and after in East Germany, where there was widespread government spying and people spying on each other. Thus, we have lots of groups that are engaged with activism regarding privacy, and it’s present in the collective consciousness.
Reddit is an advertising shithole and Lemmy is the more private/free alternative, so it’s more likely more Germans come here.
Also in general, the internet lends itself for less social people, which I’d also characterize Germans to have a tendency for.
I have heard the same sentiment about privacy, and from what I’ve seen in privacy tool communities (e.g. meshnets, where the densest networks I saw in the world were Germany and Catalonia, or Tor network where it’s common to find German nodes) this matches up.
we always were very private people
I lived in germany for a while and I loved this aspect from germans. It really bothers me when people are like “what do you need privacy for, what are you hiding” like the government always has the best intentions
We have nothing elese do do because we never work and have to much money.
du bist Beamter?
Das wäre schön.
because we never work
so this is what Merz was complaining about? 😂
He still is. Lazy germans. Merz just hates us.
Ah of course! What illness are you off becaause of today?
Like all germans we never work. What Merz said is true.
The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.
I think it’s more of a symptom of how narrow a view of the world you get from mainstream English language social media, even the view of other Western countries. Sites like Reddit are openly hostile to content in other languages since only English is allowed in the main subreddits and other languages are quarantined to dedicated language/country subreddits, while sites like Facebook/Twitter accept all languages but completely isolate different languages from each other to avoid the “bad UX” of seeing content in a language the user doesn’t know.
Germans invented the printing press. They seem always at the front of decentralized media distribution technology lol.
*took credit for inventing the printing press ;-)
They were the first to scale printing to mass producing the bible … and introducing mass literacy in their country.
Germans were more vassalized post-WW2 and have therefore a higher adoption of english than e.g, the french. Another consequence of the marshal plan is that yankee’s wanted Germany as a consumer market and hence german culture is more closely tied to yankee culture than other countries, a lot of our shows, books, movies, music etc. are translations from english or not even translated in some cases. So there is more in common to talk about. Add to that there are a lot more germans than finns or dutch and I think it makes sense that german is the most endemic non-english language on lemmy.
Other countries would have the courtesy to write in English.
Even the FrenchWym? There are nein Germans here! Any more than nine would be a lot tho /joking
Ps, while not born in Spain, we’re in Spain!! Hello spain mentioned!! :D
I want to know what the Spanish and French speaking internet users do instead. I’m Swedish and we definitely have a big presence on Reddit (and probably fediverse) relative to our population. So looks like another North vs South difference.
Same – where are they all? Probably in their pasticcerias drinking coffee and enjoying the sun (jealous!)
Herzlich willkommen! 🙂🇩🇪
(according to DeepL—hope I got this right!)
For the same reasons there are a lot of Nazi Americans on the Nazi owned Twitter.
[Edit] Clearly I need to clarify. What I mean is that Germans are sensible people imo and they’re not stupid to enough to use Twitter that is filled with arseholes and run by an arsehole.
Hence their high usage of Lemmy.
Care to elaborate?
Well: musk? His nazi salute? His nazi comments? Fits!
And that relates to Germans on Lemmy how exactly?
See edited comment above.
Thank you for the explanation. For some reason, your edit didn’t show up for me at first but now I can see it.
In my opinion there are still way too many people on X, Germans as well as others.
