Comparatively to the rest of the internet, it seems like there are a lot more Germans here. I’ve always assumed it was just because I was on a German instance and was in a sort of echo chamber (join feddit.org btw 🥳), but I just checked Fediverse Observer and it’s the 2nd largest country by users. Additionally, the German instances seem to be the biggest non-English ones.
Why is this?
It’s more efficient to gather in one place
Very… concentrated…
Maybe even do a little camping…
Ah, there it is: the one joke Americans are able to make when talking about Germany.
Thanks for fulfilling the quota, I was worried Nazis won’t be mentioned once. Thank you for your service 🫡
Germans are low key into cool cultures
Then what are they doing here?
Got lost going to a rave i guess ?
Well educated, tech savvy, but also socially awkward. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
I read that in Henning Wehn’s accent.
Fun facts… Henning’s accent is weird even to us Germans. And almost nobody in Germany knows him.
They were also prevalent on Reddit but they’re more sensitive to the enshitification that some other countries like the USA and France are more accustomed to, so more Germans made the leap than Americans.
A lot of the internet is USA and Europe, and more recently India, just in general. China, Russia, and North Korea all heavily restrict their internet access and normal people in those countries probably don’t use english-centric online communities anyways. I’m not sure why the adoption rate seems much lower in other places, perhaps they’re still developing.
Ist dreddit rekrutierend?
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
No idea WTF is happening on ich iel half the time but it seems hilarious.
I don’t speak or read German but every once in a while a meme will have a critical mass of words I understand because of their proximity to English, and the German 100% amplifies the meme.
Neither have I, and I’m German. But that’s part of why it’s so appealing
Zangendeutsch is killing me though. I’m a native English speaker living in Germany and it’s difficult not to internalize fake internet German
Was heißt denn hier fake?!
a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)
I thought it was planned, haha.
In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better
I fully agree, lol. I browse ich_iel with reading glasses and a dictionary
Keine ahnung.
I’ve wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.
They yearn for the German federation of the 1850s.
HRE will rise again !!!
They’re also heavy on Mastodon and the clone I use, Catodon.
Its just a scam perpetrated by Big Germany. Don’t let it scare you
We tried Big Germany once, turns out it wasn’t too popular
Maybe then it will stick.
Simple, we germans were the biggest non-English ones on reddit, too.
Funnily enough, AFAIK this is also reflected in the total webpages on the internet. There is an extraordinary amount of German webpages compared to other non-english ones.
And .de is also the third most used country code TLD. Only .cn and .tk are bigger. China is just so big and kind of has their own corner of the Internet, so that makes sense, and Tokelau is tiny but they offered free registrations to anyone for a long time.
Remember r/place ? Y’all were some colonizing mfers.
And we all learned that Osu players are a bunch of cheating whores.
No one fucks with the Germans on r/place
For once, we are not the baddies
Just a guess. Because Germans are using it.
Mind. Blown.
holy shit
Because they’re Ger-many?
Take your upvote and fuck off. >:V
Because Ger-many Carl!
