Nothing against Germans, I’m just wondering why, outside of the English internet, it got such high adoption in Germany compared to eg. France or Spain. I see next to no French/Spanish/etc. content on here in comparison

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    29 days ago

    I don’t know, but I think more Germans per capita are fluent in English than French, Spanish, or Latino people are, and maybe that has something to do with it.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
      7·
      29 days ago

      Ah that would actually be quite a logical explanation, since being able to operate in English would make it easier for you to partake in Anglosphere trends

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        Anglosphere trends

        conversely, it can be a godsend when you consider how broadly the global north has been adopting fascism.

  • python@lemmy.world
    111·
    28 days ago

    Most of us speak pretty good English and German media absolutely sucks ass, so many people choose to exclusively hang out in English-speaking spheres i guess

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
    7·
    29 days ago

    Ive been wondering about that myself.

    I think it was the same with reddit. Maybe these types of “forums” are just popular among Germans. But I also feel like on average Germans have a higher tendency towards english content than the rest of Europe. Especially France and eastern Europe are notoriously monolingual. I guess there are probably a lot of dutch or belgian people here (relatively speaking), but those countries are smaller so there arent many in absolute numbers.

    • riccardo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      I too think link aggregators like Lemmy, Reddit and HackerNews are very popular in Germany, but I don’t know why. The first time I noticed this was during the first two reddit r/place events, where users could compete to claim a pixel on a giant canvas to create pixel artworks. The German artworks were definitely the most prominent ones compared to countries of similar or larger size, by a loooong shot. Broader internet access and an high % of tech-literate population are surely a factor, but it definitely didn’t look proportional

  • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
    72·
    28 days ago

    Germans were more vassalized post-WW2 and have therefore a higher adoption of english than e.g, the french. Another consequence of the marshal plan is that yankee’s wanted Germany as a consumer market and hence german culture is more closely tied to yankee culture than other countries, a lot of our shows, books, movies, music etc. are translations from english or not even translated in some cases. So there is more in common to talk about. Add to that there are a lot more germans than finns or dutch and I think it makes sense that german is the most endemic non-english language on lemmy.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    27 days ago

    I think it’s more of a symptom of how narrow a view of the world you get from mainstream English language social media, even the view of other Western countries. Sites like Reddit are openly hostile to content in other languages since only English is allowed in the main subreddits and other languages are quarantined to dedicated language/country subreddits, while sites like Facebook/Twitter accept all languages but completely isolate different languages from each other to avoid the “bad UX” of seeing content in a language the user doesn’t know.

  • GarboDog@lemmy.world
    31·
    28 days ago

    Wym? There are nein Germans here! Any more than nine would be a lot tho /joking

    Ps, while not born in Spain, we’re in Spain!! Hello spain mentioned!! :D

  • PragmaticOne@lemmy.world
    34·
    26 days ago

    For the same reasons there are a lot of Nazi Americans on the Nazi owned Twitter.

    [Edit] Clearly I need to clarify. What I mean is that Germans are sensible people imo and they’re not stupid to enough to use Twitter that is filled with arseholes and run by an arsehole.

    Hence their high usage of Lemmy.