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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

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[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lemmy mostly Americans

How can we even like know that?

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The amount of American politics and culture on here for a start

To be fair the amount of absolute insanity coming out of the US is what's driving it. Luckily the UK has been fairly stable recently.

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'll tell you before you can ask

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, occasionally. Honestly that's fine, the annoying thing is when they assume everyone else is too.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

I don't have hard data, but it seems self-evident just from my personal experience. And going back to the original point, it's a nation of 400 million.