Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Because they're Ger-many?
Take your upvote and fuck off. >:V
Because Ger-many Carl!
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.
For once, we are not the baddies
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.
No one fucks with the Germans on r/place
And we all learned that Osu players are a bunch of cheating whores.
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Donβt let it scare you
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
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.
Also Germany has one of the largest populations in europe, and they tend to speak English very well unlike France/Italy/Spain.
If Lemmy is mainly made of western countries with high proportions of anglophone speakers, the prevalence of German speakers isn't really a suprise,
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
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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.
Depends on the age group imo.
I think the people who experienced internet from ca. 2005-2015 will have the best English on average. Because in this time English was simply necessary to get a grip on a lot of media, games, websites... Now a lot of things are translated, sometimes by force (youtube, reddit...) and with bad auto-translation. Also German content creators became much more widespread since 2015, so now people might never need to look past their language horizon.
Of course the dates and statements aren't absolutes, just general observations.
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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...
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Itβs because Iβm 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.
Youβre 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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Germans are low key into cool cultures
Then what are they doing here?
Got lost going to a rave i guess ?
One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
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No idea, but I love their here cus I realized I finally had a use for Gemini! Been using it to translate the memes π
I don't translate their memes, I mostly ignore them. but sometimes there's a meme that's close enough to English that I can understand it and those are hilarious
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
No idea WTF is happening on ich iel half the time but it seems hilarious.
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a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)
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Germany is also 2nd for self hosters, after US. According to a self hosting survey.
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This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
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