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?
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Funnily enough, AFAIK this is also reflected in the total webpages on the internet. There is an extraordinary amount of German webpages compared to other non-english ones.
And .de is also the third most used country code TLD. Only .cn and .tk are bigger. China is just so big and kind of has their own corner of the Internet, so that makes sense, and Tokelau is tiny but they offered free registrations to anyone for a long time.
Remember r/place ? Y’all were some colonizing mfers.
And we all learned that Osu players are a bunch of cheating whores.
No one fucks with the Germans on r/place
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
For once, we are not the baddies
Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
I read that in Henning Wehn’s accent.
Ist dreddit rekrutierend?
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.
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
I fully agree, lol. I browse ich_iel with reading glasses and a dictionary
a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)
No idea WTF is happening on ich iel half the time but it seems hilarious.
Neither have I, and I’m German. But that’s part of why it’s so appealing
Zangendeutsch is killing me though. I’m a native English speaker living in Germany and it’s difficult not to internalize fake internet German
Was heißt denn hier fake?!
I don’t speak or read German but every once in a while a meme will have a critical mass of words I understand because of their proximity to English, and the German 100% amplifies the meme.
They yearn for the German federation of the 1850s.
HRE will rise again !!!
When we were doing the reddit space stuff, Germany let us put a german instance on their train
Might’ve been feddit.org, don’t remember
One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
Now tell your car manufacturers that people would like privacy, not always-online cars.
Not that the others are any better, of course.
Always online cars are mandated by EU regulations, and for a very good reason: automated emergency calls including GPS coordinates in case of crashes.
Other nice benefits include regular map updates.
That said, there is a lot of garbage being attached to the online functionality nowadays. And the way data is collected and handled in the background it at least partially atrocious, so let’s attack that instead of the proverbial baby in the bathwater.
I don’t mind the availability of online features. I loved being able to lock and unlock my car from the app, and getting a reminder that it’s unlocked - I HATE auto-locking cars, but since my Benz sent reminders, it never needed auto-locking. I wish it had remote start for winter, but that’s technically illegal in the EU I believe, will just need Webasto next time. I’m pretty sure the same model (W205 facelift) had remote start in the US.
I also loved that if I didn’t remember how much fuel I had left in the tank, I could just check it in the app so I’d know if I needed to plan for a fuel stop before driving somewhere (usually not, it was a diesel so 1200+ km range on the highway and probably 800 in the city).
I wouldn’t EVEN mind the automatic emergency call sending GPS coordinates. But the active sending of my location and other data at all times, without the ability to opt out of any types of data, is what I hate about new cars. It’d be possible to just store location on the car and send it with the emergency call, or send when the owner sends an API request via the app, etc.
AS if Germans bought the cars… Ask VW how well the do nationally…
And Signal is more popular there also I think?
I think so, and Threema, too.
I guess, because Most of us are needs 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…
Just a guess. Because Germans are using it.
Mind. Blown.
holy shit
It’s more efficient to gather in one place
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Ah, there it is: the one joke Americans are able to make when talking about Germany.
Thanks for fulfilling the quota, I was worried Nazis won’t be mentioned once. Thank you for your service 🫡
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
Maybe then it will stick.
Mastodon was made by a german. I think that made the concept of the fediverse popular to germans.
We germans also seem to have a thing for non central organisation in anything
