Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame
Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I thought it was Finland
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I MIGHT be misrembering. Shortly after Luigi Mangione was wrongly accused of having done nothing, admins said they would be removing any content that glorified violence and were required to do so under Dutch law.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’m going off of the IP tracing
ell1e@leminal.space 2 months ago
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m only on world because lemm.ee got shut down for whatever reason
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Because the admin was burnt out and WA’s unable to find help.