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 2 days ago
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I thought it was Finland
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2 days 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 day ago
I’m going off of the IP tracing
ell1e@leminal.space 2 days ago
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m only on world because lemm.ee got shut down for whatever reason
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Because the admin was burnt out and WA’s unable to find help.