Which brings me to the next question: people from those communities, how do you explain such a difference? Was there guidance from Reddit on the official subs to show people how to migrate to Lemmy? Is it just more spread open source / Fediverse use in your countries?

I know for instance that on the French side, the /r/France mods removed the few posts we made at the time of the API issues, and still today we are limited to a tiny self-promotion post on Sunday, that barely no one reads.

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

German here. Im not quite sure why that is either, but I believe the ich_iel sub on reddit largely migrated here, transplanting a very active and established community. Perhaps that has given german groups a large potential userbase right off the bat.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Interesting, that probably helped indeed. Memes are usually the best way to get people interested.

[–] UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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