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Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy? (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Comparatively to the rest of the internet, it seems like there are a lot more Germans here. I’ve always assumed it was just because I was on a German instance and was in a sort of echo chamber (join feddit.org btw 🥳), but I just checked Fediverse Observer and it’s the 2nd largest country by users. Additionally, the German instances seem to be the biggest non-English ones.

Why is this?

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[–] [email protected] 300 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Germany has always been a big hub for Free software as a whole, for alternative communications, etc. The CCC's presence is a big factor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Also Germany has one of the largest populations in europe, and they tend to speak English very well unlike France/Italy/Spain.

If Lemmy is mainly made of western countries with high proportions of anglophone speakers, the prevalence of German speakers isn't really a suprise,

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's CCC?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

More content than you ever could consume:

https://media.ccc.de/

It's from all their camps, workshops, Erfa's (Erfahrungsaustauschkreis) and especially the annual Chaos Communication Congress which is huge and attracts the scene worldwide.

The last congress was named 38C3: Illegal Instructions if you want to search on their media hub. A lot of the talks are in english.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Most of the german ones get translated the weeks after the congress

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I thought CCC stands for C. C. Catch :(