.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame
I thought it was Finland
I MIGHT be misrembering. Shortly after Luigi Mangione was wrongly accused of having done nothing, admins said they would be removing any content that glorified violence and were required to do so under Dutch law.
I’m going off of the IP tracing
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
Because Germans are more educated and has a higher level of consciousness than Americans
…and has more educationer, languagely.
We are legion for we are many?!
There are literally dozens of them.
Must be all the German people.
Dieser Faden ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Idk but I need to learn German. A goth German wife sounds pretty nice. She can sing Die Arbeiter von Wien to me.
Denn Lemmy ist sehr gut but not very good
German community was huge on reddit. There were also a lot of users that were unhappy with the biggest german subreddit and reddit in general.
I guess quite a lot jumped ship when reddit started banning third party apps.
On point!
I want to read the German language posts. Is there a translate button on Lemmy? I tried the “Select Language” button but nothing happened.
You’ll have to read in German…
The problem is, that a lot of the more memey communities are using Zangendeutsch, which is basically militantly and very literally translating English words into German. Translation tools will have a hard time translating those correctly
Firefox has a built in translator, and there are add-ons you can install if you want a different version. Won’t work on image posts though
“Select language” is to mark the language you are using in your posts and comments. Don’t know for what, maybe for others to filter stuff out?
- there are many germans on reddit
- germans tend to be more privacy aware in my opinion
- and I also think Germany has a large and very dedicated open source community.
- then there are just many german speaking people. lemmy is popular in the west and together with austria and switzerland (and some other areas) you have almost 100 million native speakers.
SPRICH
DU HURENSOHN
Because there are many Germans on Lemmy.
Yes but why specifically german? Is the founder german?
Two reasons, Germans are very privacy focused and at the same time pretty tech affine. Also, sprich Deutsch du Huso
Not sure what the core reason is, but Reddit also had a big German population.
I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might have been disproportionately migrating during the reddit exodus.
Sounds plausible
The guy who made Mastodon is German, so maybe that was a fediverse on-ramp.
Hallo
surprise germans 🫨
Nobody expects the German inquisition,!
Finde ich richtig gut, ja
i may or may not be german as well 🫣
Achtung!
🤫🤫🤫
Des heißt servus, zefix!
Tag!
Wie ghets?
But what if a lot of them are Austrians in disguise!
That’s a bingo!
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
That’s a Zionist server
oh, is it? 👀
Because they can.
I can’t read a single word of german but I’m glad to randomly stumble on a german post.
Makes the fediverse more pluralist.
How often can that same question be asked without it being stupid?
