Maybe it's because they have long winters and didn't really like in person interactions.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Come on, my fellow Finns, this one deserves more upvotes!
Your comment feels like it's little joo close to me
Doesn't Finland have a pretty large IT community and English speaking community? I read that today in a post about Americans trying to emigrate.
The reason we use english online so much is because when you search the web for something in finnish your top results will include vauva.fi forums (vauva = baby, used to be a magazine with a forum. Now only the forums persist). You find so much more information searching in english.
To be fair I once got an answer to my question on the baby forums about changing oils in my car from that forum.
When the subreddits "going dark" episode was happening on Reddit, the admins of /r/suomi (the Finnish-speaking equivalent of /r/finland) decided to keep the subreddit privated for much longer than most others. This may have led to a slightly higher percentage of Finnish users finding a new home here on Lemmy compared to other nationalities.
Good mods
I don't think that Lemmy is more popular in Finland, Sopuli or Finnish users may just stand out more.
Can confirm, I'm definitely not Finnish.
And judging by instance statistics (at Join-Lemmy for instance), it's Germany where Lemmy is more popular. Discuss.techns.de alone has total 6595 users and 794 monthly users. Sopuli for comparison has currently 4957 total users and 489 monthly users.
The instance user count statistics really don't tell anything. For example, I'm a Finn and I don't speak German at all but still my account is on tchncs.de. This instance is open to everyone, the same way than Sopuli is not just for Finnish-speaking folks.
I'm not from Finland but I've been playing a lot of My Summer Car and just figured out how to take a sauna and got the Welcome to Finland achievement.
Also not Finnish, but the first time I used the sauna in that I came back from the shop to my house being burnt to the ground.
Apart from that minor detail the game does lead me to believe I'm spiritually Finnish.
I don't think it is. For some reason Finland just seems to be overrepresented online despite its small population which might create such illusion but that has not been my experience on Lemmy. I only remember encountering a handfull of other Finns here.
There's also a huge Linux community, and Linus Torvalds is a Finn. Possible connection, or just coincidence?
I usually have my vpn set to Finland, I'm sure it was all me
It is?
Honestly no clue why. At least I didn't find my way here through any local means.
I guess Finland has a larger non-mainstream community than is normal. However it feels weird that there is such a small Swedish counterpart, since they also have a relatively large pirate movement. Perhaps because the Swedish instances are very political, so Swedish users spread out over the fediverse?