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Why are there so many Germans on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Nothing against Germans, I'm just wondering why, outside of the English internet, it got such high adoption in Germany compared to eg. France or Spain. I see next to no French/Spanish/etc. content on here in comparison

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

Lemmy mostly Americans

How can we even, like, know that?

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml [S] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The amount of American politics and culture on here for a start

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[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

To be fair the amount of absolute insanity coming out of the US is what's driving it. Luckily the UK has been fairly stable recently.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

They'll tell you before you can ask

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, occasionally. Honestly that's fine, the annoying thing is when they assume everyone else is, too.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

I don't have hard data, but it seems self-evident just from my personal experience. And going back to the original point, it's a nation of 400 million.

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