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.
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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,
What's CCC?
Thank you
More content than you ever could consume:
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.
Most of the german ones get translated the weeks after the congress
It’s because I’m specifically learning German and the universe shifted to my will. The universe created feddit.org to give me a clear path to achieve my goal of befriending Germans.
This only happpened because me, Tischbier, decided to take an interest in Germany.
You’re welcome.
(Joking aside, I noticed on Reddit before I left and before I started to learn German, that ich_irl was hitting the front page a lot too. My family decided to learn German together probably in part because of how funny Germans are. I watch German YouTubers now too (Spacefrogs and Staiy). Germany is a pretty big country and I think them the top leader of the free world! I have enjoyed reading the actual Germans takes on this topic. Prost!)
The universe created Feddit.org
Actually Feddit.org is only a follow up instance. Originally there was an instance called Feddit.de, which was basically the same as Feddit.org. however, last year the only admin travelled to south-asia and went missing. To this day no one knows what happened to him. In his absence the pictrs box of the instance overflowed causing image uploads to not work anymore. As time goes on the instance started to get more and more unreliable. It started getting downtimes, federation didnt work anymore. After months of seeing the instance degrade the community started to take matters into the own hands and create a new instance. However it was clear, that there shouldn't be a single admin in order to not have the same problem as before. After some time where we considered creating an own association to care for the instance we decided, to instead hit up the "Fediverse foundation" which are now hosting Feddit.org
How many admins feddit.org has and is there a policy prohibiting them from traveling to South-Asia together?
I know 2 Admins and the fediverse foundation, but I dont know how many there are exactly.
There are 3 admins including myself from the Lemmy side and one from the foundation.
I actually knew this! The creation origin is why I inhabit feddit.org consciously. In a dying instance, you found each other and came together to build where we speak now. I found that very human. Poignant.
I did a dive on the history of Feddit.org. I went back and read all your (our I guess) original threads. I have also read the posts where the decision was made to changeover. I liked that the posts were kind, empathetic, although slightly sad. It made me understand the spirit of this instance.
So, it’s true that no one has had contact with him? No one has any scraps of information from his real life? My guess is some of us do and the leads were exhausted. I have tracked down a fair share of anonymous friends across the world whom have disappeared. That is very sad.
I didn’t know about the “Fediverse Foundation” nor the multiple Admin. Where may I learn more about this? Or is this just word of mouth?
Thank you for sharing.
AFAIK no one knows anything about what happened to the old admin (he was called wintermute). The only thing that everyone knows is, that he went to south Asia and was expecting to not have internet access at all times. If someone would have known anything furthet I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it. You can find all the instances the fediverse foundation hosts here (German): https://fediverse.foundation/instanzen/. The thing with the multiple Admins is something known by the people. I know two people who are Admins ( @ZonenRanslite@feddit.org and @BurningTurtle@feddit.org the first one was one of the people who was very invested in the creation of this instance), but I guess there are more and of course the fediverse foundation itself.
German subs were really big on Reddit, too.
Germany is the second largest country in Europe by population, they don't really have their own social media like e.g. Russia or China and they're much better at English than most other big countries that are not already English native speakers.
To be clear, native Germans are far better at English than most Americans are at this point.
Depends on the age group imo.
I think the people who experienced internet from ca. 2005-2015 will have the best English on average. Because in this time English was simply necessary to get a grip on a lot of media, games, websites... Now a lot of things are translated, sometimes by force (youtube, reddit...) and with bad auto-translation. Also German content creators became much more widespread since 2015, so now people might never need to look past their language horizon.
Of course the dates and statements aren't absolutes, just general observations.
I mean, many Germans might read and write English well, but their pronounciaton ...
Ship captain on the radio: "Mayday, mayday. We are sinking!"
German coast guard: "What are you sinkin about?"
Jokes aside, honestly, I have not hear much bad English here in Germany. Then again, I guess I don't hear many people speak.
better at English
It's been a while since you've been in a video conference with Germans speaking English, hasn't it? /j
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But with a second newline it's fine
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One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook
And Signal is more popular there also I think?
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Remember r/place ? Y'all were some colonizing mfers.
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better