Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy?
Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy?
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?
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As a kind of unique exception (!melbourne@aussie.zone being the other one), the mods of /r/ich_iel pointed out to feddit.de (previous version of feddit.org) in a pinned post: https://old.reddit.com/r/ich_iel/comments/14d65o7/öffentliche_dienstmeldung_änderung_der/
Compare this to all of the other country/regional subs who would remove similar posts for "self promotion", and you get why the German population was guided here instead of having to hear it from an second level comment on a Sunday thread
That might be why Star Trek is so huge here. The largest Star Trek meme sub (/r/Risa) has also had a pinned post pointing to Lemmy since during the Reddit API migration.
Formerly largest, it got replaced and dethroned by /c/tenforward
Risa the subreddit, not the Lemmy community.
Tho the r/de mods have this exact problem in recent times.
Oh, I'm sure the /r/Canada, /r/France and all of the others are the same.
The /R/buyfromEU mods still haven't added any link to the !buyeuropean@feddit.uk in their pinned post