SubArcticTundraMar 16

Why are there so many Germans on Lemmy?

https://lemmy.ml/post/44591901

Why are there so many Germans on Lemmy? - Lemmy

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

Show threadMentalEdgeMar 16

It’s pretty much just that there are a lot of Germans.

The population of Germany is about 80 million.

All else being equal, there are 16 times more Germans online than us finns, for example.

Next to the USs 300 million people, that’s still one German about every 5 people. Add to that that Germans are definitely online more than americans, and yeah…

A lot of Germans.

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What do you mean, Germans are “online more than americans”?
Mar 17 at 6:56pmWeb
Show threadMentalEdgeMar 17

The USs social media user count is at 73% of population, to Germany’s 77%. Smaller difference that I expected, but I did remember correctly, that the US has lower penetration.

USA does have higher time spent online per person though.