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?
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.
What’s CCC?
Thank you
More content than you ever could consume:
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.
Most of the german ones get translated the weeks after the congress
Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
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.
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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 ( @[email protected] and @[email protected] 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.
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.
To be clear, native Germans are far better at English than most Americans are at this point.
I mean, many Germans might read and write English well, but their pronounciaton …
Ship captain on the radio: “Mayday, mayday. We are sinking!”
German coast guard: “What are you sinkin about?”
Jokes aside, honestly, I have not hear much bad English here in Germany. Then again, I guess I don’t hear many people speak.
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Don’t let it scare you
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…
For once, we are not the baddies
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Remember r/place ? Y’all were some colonizing mfers.
One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
And Signal is more popular there also I think?
It happens, things become more popular in some countries than others ,and Germany has 80+ million people so it’s not that small.
What I’m more surprised with is almost no content in Spanish, either from Spain or Latin America, just because of the number of speakers. I mean Hindi and Chinese are spoken by more people, but they tend to have their own software ecosystems.
I guess the question is, what are Spanish speakers using for social media
They’re quite active on Reddit. It seems that the Fediverse didn’t resonate as much as with English speaking Redditors.
Have we told them about it in Spanish?
Lots of Spanish speakers also speak some English but also lots of them don’t. Some outreach in different languages might be a good idea.
Tengo naranjas grandes para el oso y dos gardenias para ti.
Soy gringo… Mi español no es bueno, pero no creo que eso sea correcto…
Soy gringo tambien. Es porqueria.
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
