Hello everyone,
I was having a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active, and it’s quite interesting to see how different the country communities rank
- !dach@feddit.de: 1.4k weekly active users
- !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk: 1.2k wau
- !casualuk@feddit.uk: 942 wau
- !deutschland@feddit.de: 921 wau
- !france@jlai.lu: 249 wau
The rest of the communities (linked in the sidebar) are much less active.
Which brings me to the next question: people from those communities, how do you explain such a difference? Was there guidance from Reddit on the official subs to show people how to migrate to Lemmy? Is it just more spread open source / Fediverse use in your countries?
I know for instance that on the French side, the /r/France mods removed the few posts we made at the time of the API issues, and still today we are limited to a tiny self-promotion post on Sunday, that barely no one reads.
German here. Im not quite sure why that is either, but I believe the ich_iel sub on reddit largely migrated here, transplanting a very active and established community. Perhaps that has given german groups a large potential userbase right off the bat.
Shame it’s just ich_iel, there’s no way we can KOLONISEREN you now.
The meme sub wars and alliances were probably the most actually fun thing back over there. I hope the others make the switch eventually
Interesting, that probably helped indeed. Memes are usually the best way to get people interested.
Diese Kommentarsektion ist ab sofort und mit unvermittelter Wirkung alleiniges Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Perhaps it’s because of the big overlap with the FOSS and Linux communities?
Might be, I didn’t know before that Germany had such a large FOSS community
I think it’s more about the demographic of people frequenting the less mainstream online services (reddit is big, but still pretty niche). Germany is a country of technophobes, many of whom wouldn’t know a computer if it fell on their head from the 5th floor. So the demographic that is well versed enough in the field to make it to a less mainstream online community won’t have that much trouble trying out another one.
Interesting, thanks!
