Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?

• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not sure what the core reason is, but Reddit also had a big German population.

  I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might have been disproportionately migrating during the reddit exodus.

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  • Ziggurat@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might

    3rd Reich then east Germany gave Germany a hard lesson about privacy, so indeed they’re very sensitive to that topic

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    • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      not that the government cares, they want to centralize most of the data of citizens now with pretty poor protections in a lot of cases. sads

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  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sounds plausible

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Two reasons, Germans are very privacy focused and at the same time pretty tech affine. Also, sprich Deutsch du Huso

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• executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The guy who made Mastodon is German, so maybe that was a fediverse on-ramp.

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    At least one of the two Lemmy maintainers is also German or at least a native speaker as far as I know.

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