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 1 year ago
.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I thought it was Finland
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, that’s compelling. Why not just lead with that?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Lemmy.world is registered in North Brabant, the Netherlands, , but appears to trace to
FinlandThe United States now?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
I’m going off of the IP tracing
ell1e@leminal.space 1 year ago
interestingly, most commenters here don’t seem to be on .world 🤔
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m only on world because lemm.ee got shut down for whatever reason
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Because the admin was burnt out and WA’s unable to find help.