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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Germany of all countries has dippped into it: https://social.bund.de/

Not quite sure how this works without fax machines, but it does.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Judging by the number of German posts I see on here as well, it seems Germany is very receptive to the idea of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

When we think back on how the Google Street View coverage looks in the EU when the majority of Germans objected to getting their houses filmed, there just might be a certain attitude against big tech companies.

https://i.imgur.com/yYbxQi5.jpg

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well, Germany is officially a Federal Republic, it does make some sense they would join a federated universe :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve noticed a lot of German language fediverse content too. Does anyone know why German speakers are so keen on the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

German speaking Swiss here. Absolutely no idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

According to Kbin's Privacy Policy page many of the servers are in Germany.

I actually like the way it's written, "the Germany", and hope it doesn't get changed. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess it’s because we don’t like US platforms.

We don’t like, that they have a monopoly on these platforms, we don’t like the idea of influencers, we don’t like cult of personality, we don’t like to loose control over our data, we don’t like English speakers as a whole, we don’t like US politics, we don’t like radical politics (even though I am a radical right, I hate everyone else who is radical right and more so the left. Actually I hate every political position), we also hate to loose our productivity for screentime and the list could go on.

We Germans are control freaks. We have always been. In the past we tried to enforce it with weapons. Now we are desperately trying to enforce our values with generosity. Running around the world and throwing money around.

We are longing for absolute control, centralised in Germany and not in some foreign third world country without healthcare (USA).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's HRE all over again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yay deutschland