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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think it's more of a symptom of how narrow a view of the world you get from mainstream English language social media, even the view of other Western countries. Sites like Reddit are openly hostile to content in other languages since only English is allowed in the main subreddits and other languages are quarantined to dedicated language/country subreddits, while sites like Facebook/Twitter accept all languages but completely isolate different languages from each other to avoid the "bad UX" of seeing content in a language the user doesn't know.