Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?

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Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? - Lemmy.World

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Because there are many Germans on Lemmy.
Yes but why specifically german? Is the founder german?

Not sure what the core reason is, but Reddit also had a big German population.

I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might have been disproportionately migrating during the reddit exodus.

I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might

3rd Reich then east Germany gave Germany a hard lesson about privacy, so indeed they’re very sensitive to that topic

not that the government cares, they want to centralize most of the data of citizens now with pretty poor protections in a lot of cases. sads

Having the data is one thing, using data for genocide and oppression is whole different issue.

But despite all that history, Germans will blindly support Israel

not all of them will.