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
Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I thought it was Finland
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’m going off of the IP tracing
ell1e@leminal.space 1 month ago
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m only on world because lemm.ee got shut down for whatever reason
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Because the admin was burnt out and WA’s unable to find help.