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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
- lemmy.world: 19516
- lemm.ee: 3779
- lemmy.ml: 2970
- sh.itjust.works: 2355
- feddit.de: 2293
I'm also impressed by feddit.de presence, Fediverse culture seems strong in Germany
Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y'all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others
I'm from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.
My guess is:
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).
~~Wait, isn't French second with 210k?~~
~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe#List_of_languages ~~
Sorry, misread, you are correct about native speakers!
Is Latin America not the western world? That would add another 200 million or so Spanish speakers.
Aren't Spanish speakers on their own link agregator, https://www.meneame.net/ ?
No idea. But they said "German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English" whereas the wikipedia article is on Europe, so that would exclude Latin America if it's part of the west. I believe if they are included, they absolutely dwarf the number of German speakers.
It seems that it's not that clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#/media/File:Western_World_Latin_America_torn_countries.png
Ohhh that's going to piss off Greek Nazis. The fascist Junta back in the days was all in on "we're western we're the source of everything western we are the west", not to mention "Turks are filthy pigs we have nothing in common with them", meanwhile, the music.
It's a good question though why there are so few Spanish speakers here (or at least visible).
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.
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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.
Probably a lot. I expect LW to go down to something around 17k, maybe even a bit less
I was also on world but switched to lemm.ee when they defederated hexbear.
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.
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).
Lemmy.ml doesn't take new registrations... Unless that changed
Seems like it did change
Of course it's the one instance where I accidentally capitalized my username and can't change it to a lower case letter.
Who knew Lemmy was so big in Estonia?
Wait, lemmy.ml is French ?
No, they are just hosted in the OVH data center in France.
I mean, aren't the lemmy dev and lemmy.ml admins French?
No. One is from Austria and the other lives in Canada.
TIL!
Canadians are half french.
The .ml is the country extension for Mali, which was colonized (read that how you want) by France along with other regions of Africa. Just recently French troops left Mali after a nine year military operation to fight Islamic militants.
Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.
Kbin is pretty nice, but sometimes it feels like it is... a bit too nice? Clean UI, better uptime, but also seems a little bit more closed. Makes me feel a little paranoid. Is there a corporation running it?
Lemmy.world is hosted in the USA? I wonder how long til it gets raided by the feds
It's not, it's in Europe
I think that is an artifact of their Cloudflare use. The main server is AFAIK in a Hetzner data center in Helsinki, Finland.
So its just proxied by the feds
Why would it be raided by the feds?
Why wouldn't it?
? I don't see why reason why it would? Do you want to actually explain your reasoning?
