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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[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps it's because of the big overlap with the FOSS and Linux communities?

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Might be, I didn't know before that Germany had such a large FOSS community

[–] trollercoaster@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's more about the demographic of people frequenting the less mainstream online services (reddit is big, but still pretty niche). Germany is a country of technophobes, many of whom wouldn't know a computer if it fell on their head from the 5th floor. So the demographic that is well versed enough in the field to make it to a less mainstream online community won't have that much trouble trying out another one.

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

Interesting, thanks!