Because there are many Germans on Lemmy.
Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?
Submitted 5 weeks ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Hallo
FlockAdmiralEmu@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Wie ghets?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tag!
Strider@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Des heißt servus, zefix!
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes but why specifically german? Is the founder german?
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
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.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Two reasons, Germans are very privacy focused and at the same time pretty tech affine. Also, sprich Deutsch du Huso
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
The guy who made Mastodon is German, so maybe that was a fediverse on-ramp.
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s a bingo!
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
But what if a lot of them are Austrians in disguise!
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
G U T EN T A G
Dabei bin ich nichmal Deutsch
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
To give a more serious answer:
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Germans are a bit more privacy focused than most other nations (if you want to know how much read up on the google street view controversy). Germans tend to be much more aware how Meta/Google,etc. abuse their data (and while the average German won’t care there are enough of them that you actually note it)
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There is a very strong “antiITestablishment” subculture that is very active since the 80ies. The Chaos Computer Club and its congresses,etc. but also the recent trend toward digital sovereignty has increased the amount of people who see Reddit and (to a much much larger extent) Twitter in a critical light - and due to the close links of Mastodon to Lemmy that helps both.
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German speaking people, especially in the,on Lemmy, overrepresented Tech field tend to understand English fairly well (but underestimate their ability to speak it themselves often). That enables them to consume English speaking content as well, not forcing them into other media formats that do cater more for smaller languages.
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And let’s face it: There are a freaking lot of German speaking people. Around 100 Million people speak German in Europe - and while that of course is nothing compared to other India or China it’s the largest non-english language block in Europe. That gives one a large enough “crowd” to actually find an audience for a sub - while it’s rather hard to get enough people for an Italian speaking niche sub it’s far easier to do so if it’s German speaking.
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There are also some cultural issues at play - to quote an old German saying that says: “Three Germans meet - they found an association (Verein)”. Germans tend to self-organise extremely proactively. Which is often tiresome, believe me. Additionally some Germans tend to find the Americocentrism on Reddit, but also to a lesser degree, on Lemmy, boring and at times nerve wrecking.
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Lastly the German main instance, Fediverse.org is operated by a pretty robust foundation who knows what it is doing. Which of course keeps the community more stable and hosts a lot of European (non German) subs as well.
Source: Am German, lived abroad for quite some time.
Yes, I am fully aware this question wasn’t totally serious.
No, contrary to common believe we don’t have to go to the basement to laugh. Germans go to the basement for sauerkraut and to watch German dungeon porn, Swiss to clean their bunkers and Austrians,well, I’d rather not talk about that.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
some Germans tend to find the Americocentrism on Reddit, but also to a lesser degree, on Lemmy, boring and at times nerve wrecking.
Based. I concur and approve. Wish I could do the same and steer away from it all. Not easy, though :(
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Yeah. Personally I try to visit non-American subs for that quite often here. Australia, Canada,etc. provide different views and influences as well and are English speaking.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Funny story about the language ability. I had a German friend in college. He had moved to America 1 month prior and never lived in an English speaking country. He had a perfect English accent and was overall better than some of my native born friends. I required proof of his German heritage, lol, thought he was making it up. And very bashful about his incredible language ability!
Recently I met a Dutch person traveling in the US for a week. He had a flawless Southern Californian accent, my friends and I didn’t believe him. His language skills were literally better than most Americans.
I can say the same about mant Indians I’ve worked with as well.
Blasted non-Americans and their superior education!!!
polle@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
“Three Germans meet - they found an association (Verein)”.
This is especially funny because feddit.org actually is a verein.
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I know. But an Austrian one.
One could say they are more German than the Germans, but… well…that didn’t work out well before…so we don’t say that anymore I think.
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Das Schnitzel is oder is nicht? Was denn nun?
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Verdammte Autokorrektur!
Verdammte Grammatischeafdler!
Verdammt!
4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Wanted to comment with a few of these points but this comment is way better than anything I could’ve written. This is the right answer!
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“Three Germans meet - they found an association (Verein)”.
Stop spreading misinformation on the Internet!
Everyone knows, that while 3 is the minimum membership (§ 73 BGB), 7 people are required to found one (§ 56 BGB).philpo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah. For an “eingetragener Verein”. For a Vereinsgründung of a non registered association two members are enough. So if you want to be a Klugscheißerle, read your BGB first. Micdrop
paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Can you elaborate on the self organizing thing? I don’t think I have a strong intuition on what you mean.
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Germans have a tendency to associate in a formal association (called Verein). From sports clubs (often even the smallest rural villages have multiple), allotment plot gardening, hiking, environmental protection, neighbourhood based one, as parental associations, cars owners, professional ones to old folks and widows, etc. etc. These are all registered with the local court (e.V.), have a formal operations charter,etc.
As people tend to be multiple clubs/associations there are far more club members than people in Germany. Germany holds the world record in that regard since 1945. (Personally I am a member of…12 I think. Maybe more. Car, School of the kiddos, sports, sports of the kiddos, a few very niche professional ones, environmental ones, a local food one,etc.)
This tendency to formalize things also sometimes is visible online in terms of subcommunity formation.
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vxx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
theTarrasque@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
On point!
sasquash@helvetiverse.ch 5 weeks ago
- 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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
[deleted]misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Oh no! Gently places gun ground We fought the good fight. I surrender.
chug-capture-ahoy@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Because Germans are more educated and has a higher level of consciousness than Americans
richardwonka@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
…and has more education-er, languagely.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I want to read the German language posts. Is there a translate button on Lemmy? I tried the “Select Language” button but nothing happened.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
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
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’ll have to read in German…
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
“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?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
ell1e@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m only on world because lemm.ee got shut down for whatever reason
Windex007@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I thought it was Finland
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
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.
DerDudemeister@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dieser Faden ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
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.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
It is possible to block all of the primarily foreign language communities, but the bad news is you have to do it one at a time. When I see posts from a community in a language I do not speak, I block it so it does not clutter my feed.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Denn Lemmy ist sehr gut but not very good
Donjamos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We are legion for we are many?!
shaggyb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Must be all the German people.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Idk but I need to learn German. A goth German wife sounds pretty nice. She can sing Die Arbeiter von Wien to me.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
SPRICH
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 weeks ago
How often can that same question be asked without it being stupid?
Hubi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Not to take all the credit, but a factor might be that I, as the top mod of the second largest German Subreddit, promoted Lemmy heavily to the point where the admins banned me “for breaking reddit”.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 weeks ago
That's some damn fine work, sir.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s pretty funny and if I were in that German subreddit I would probably have migrated out of solidarity
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
Du machst das sehr gut. Ich bin stolz auf dich!
Hubi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Danke, das weiß ich zu schätzen 🙏
daw@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Hubi🥰
Hubi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
:D
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thank you for your service o7
ell1e@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
you deserve a trophy 🏆 🥰
Hubi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I wouldn’t go that far :D I just really enjoyed throwing a wrench into reddit’s gears after they killed 3rd party apps.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How dare you, Sir
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 weeks ago
lol great job
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Every day act of heroism. Thank you!!!