Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
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I read that in Henning Wehn's accent.
Fun facts... Henning's accent is weird even to us Germans. And almost nobody in Germany knows him.
Because they're Ger-many?
Take your upvote and fuck off. >:V
Because Ger-many Carl!
They were also prevalent on Reddit but they're more sensitive to the enshitification that some other countries like the USA and France are more accustomed to, so more Germans made the leap than Americans.
A lot of the internet is USA and Europe, and more recently India, just in general. China, Russia, and North Korea all heavily restrict their internet access and normal people in those countries probably don't use english-centric online communities anyways. I'm not sure why the adoption rate seems much lower in other places, perhaps they're still developing.
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Don’t let it scare you
We tried Big Germany once, turns out it wasn't too popular
For once, we are not the baddies
No idea, but I love their here cus I realized I finally had a use for Gemini! Been using it to translate the memes 😅
I don't translate their memes, I mostly ignore them. but sometimes there's a meme that's close enough to English that I can understand it and those are hilarious
Keine ahnung.
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
They're also heavy on Mastodon and the clone I use, Catodon.
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.
Also Germany has one of the largest populations in europe, and they tend to speak English very well unlike France/Italy/Spain.
If Lemmy is mainly made of western countries with high proportions of anglophone speakers, the prevalence of German speakers isn't really a suprise,
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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.
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One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
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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!)
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
How many admins feddit.org has and is there a policy prohibiting them from traveling to South-Asia together?
There are 3 admins including myself from the Lemmy side and one from the foundation.
I know 2 Admins and the fediverse foundation, but I dont know how many there are exactly.
I actually knew this! The creation origin is why I inhabit feddit.org consciously. In a dying instance, you found each other and came together to build where we speak now. I found that very human. Poignant.
I did a dive on the history of Feddit.org. I went back and read all your (our I guess) original threads. I have also read the posts where the decision was made to changeover. I liked that the posts were kind, empathetic, although slightly sad. It made me understand the spirit of this instance.
So, it’s true that no one has had contact with him? No one has any scraps of information from his real life? My guess is some of us do and the leads were exhausted. I have tracked down a fair share of anonymous friends across the world whom have disappeared. That is very sad.
I didn’t know about the “Fediverse Foundation” nor the multiple Admin. Where may I learn more about this? Or is this just word of mouth?
Thank you for sharing.
AFAIK no one knows anything about what happened to the old admin (he was called wintermute). The only thing that everyone knows is, that he went to south Asia and was expecting to not have internet access at all times. If someone would have known anything furthet I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it. You can find all the instances the fediverse foundation hosts here (German): https://fediverse.foundation/instanzen/. The thing with the multiple Admins is something known by the people. I know two people who are Admins ( @ZonenRanslite@feddit.org and @BurningTurtle@feddit.org the first one was one of the people who was very invested in the creation of this instance), but I guess there are more and of course the fediverse foundation itself.
Wow thank you for sharing all this and taking the time to explain to me. This is so sad and confusing about wintermute. I hope that against the odds wintermute comes back to us one day.
I feel very happy to have found you all and I would like to support our instance in whatever way I can. Vielen Dank ❤️
If you want to support Feddit.org The easiest and best way is by donating money to the fediverse foundation. You can find everything needed here: https://fediverse.foundation/spenden/
Ok I will! Thank youuuu
But i am no longer an admin, for reasons^^
What happened?
Dumme Geschichte
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Germany is also 2nd for self hosters, after US. According to a self hosting survey.
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Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
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