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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I'm from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.

My guess is:

  • Germany is a big, populated country
  • People from DACH also gravitate towards feddit.de
  • The culture kinda gives itself to the project
  • The NL and the EU are the main funders of Lemmy
  • The government itself is embracing the Fediverse
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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is DACH?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's the country codes for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Deutschland for the D, Confederation Helvetica for the CH). Those are the three countries with a majority of their people speaking German other than Liechtenstein, which is extremely small

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It also means roof and is reminiscent of Dachsprache. One of those unreasonably neat acronyms.

    And in particular it's the vehicle registration codes, ISO 3166 for Austria is AT (hence also the TLD).

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think one reason is the large number of German users on the Internet. With around 100 million speakers, German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English.

    According to the application texts, many users seem to come from various podcasts. We are also "endorsed" by one of the largest German-language subreddits on its front page (r/ich_iel). Our users have also started to watermark their memes, which occasionally attracts new users. Feddit also made it into an article in a popular IT magazine (heise).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Wait, isn't French second with 210k?

    ~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe#List_of_languages ~~

    Sorry, misread, you are correct about native speakers!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is Latin America not the western world? That would add another 200 million or so Spanish speakers.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aren't Spanish speakers on their own link agregator, https://www.meneame.net/ ?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No idea. But they said "German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English" whereas the wikipedia article is on Europe, so that would exclude Latin America if it's part of the west. I believe if they are included, they absolutely dwarf the number of German speakers.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Ohhh that's going to piss off Greek Nazis. The fascist Junta back in the days was all in on "we're western we're the source of everything western we are the west", not to mention "Turks are filthy pigs we have nothing in common with them", meanwhile, the music.

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