For once, we are not the baddies
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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I read that in Henning Wehn's accent.
Fun facts... Henning's accent is weird even to us Germans. And almost nobody in Germany knows him.
Keine ahnung.
This social media seems to be primarily eurozone folks
They were also prevalent on Reddit but they're more sensitive to the enshitification that some other countries like the USA and France are more accustomed to, so more Germans made the leap than Americans.
A lot of the internet is USA and Europe, and more recently India, just in general. China, Russia, and North Korea all heavily restrict their internet access and normal people in those countries probably don't use english-centric online communities anyways. I'm not sure why the adoption rate seems much lower in other places, perhaps they're still developing.
They're also heavy on Mastodon and the clone I use, Catodon.
Because they're Ger-many?
Take your upvote and fuck off. >:V
No idea, but I love their here cus I realized I finally had a use for Gemini! Been using it to translate the memes π
I don't translate their memes, I mostly ignore them. but sometimes there's a meme that's close enough to English that I can understand it and those are hilarious
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Donβt let it scare you
We tried Big Germany once, turns out it wasn't too popular
Mastodon was made by a german. I think that made the concept of the fediverse popular to germans.
We germans also seem to have a thing for non central organisation in anything
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Funnily enough, AFAIK this is also reflected in the total webpages on the internet. There is an extraordinary amount of German webpages compared to other non-english ones.
And .de is also the third most used country code TLD. Only .cn and .tk are bigger. China is just so big and kind of has their own corner of the Internet, so that makes sense, and Tokelau is tiny but they offered free registrations to anyone for a long time.
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I guess, because Most of us are needs and Love the Open source Community. In contrast to nerds of other countries, we are far more interested in talking and participating on that stuff. Just as examples see KDE, Codeberg...
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