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[Discussion] German and English people, why do you think your communities/instances are much more active than the rest of the European ones? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/yurop@lemm.ee
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Hello everyone,

I was having a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active, and it's quite interesting to see how different the country communities rank

The rest of the communities (linked in the sidebar) are much less active.

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)

Diese Kommentarsektion ist ab sofort und mit unvermittelter Wirkung alleiniges Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[–] 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!