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?

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • Zahtu@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

    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…

  • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    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!)

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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      14 days ago

      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

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    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.