• Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y’all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others

      • maynarkh@feddit.nl
        30·
        1 year ago

        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
          • maynarkh@feddit.nl
            13·
            1 year ago

            German-speaking countries in Europe. Deutschland (Germany), Austria and of course the Confœderatio Helvetica (Switzerland).

          • Skua@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            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

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
              4·
              1 year 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).

        • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          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).

      • kugel7c@feddit.de
        8·
        1 year ago

        Generally internet culture In the Dach region is very active and forward looking, and potentially ideologically aligned with the idea of Fediverse and generally FOSS software and privacy. E.g. for Wikipedia language share German got overtaken by Spanish only within the last 5 years slipping from 2nd to 3rd suggesting some early adopter and internet participation higher than the norm.

        Subjectively a lot of people here have uneasiness with big tech, and are relatively informed about alternatives.DACH on Reddit was also very big, and very ideologically opposed to API changes and general Reddit corpo behaviour. Subjectively again Dach and ich_iel felt like home when I joined, essentially like the Reddit culture I was used to, just with a little more progressive views across the board.

        Also I suspect that German language speakers are fairly active within the English speaking parts of the internet in general, while Spanish and French as well as other non Germanic languages seem to have more disdain for English language content and sites, Germans and Dutch as well as Nordics are very comfortable with English as a common language.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    411·
    1 year ago

    Curious about the blank stats for hexbear. Should this populate over several weeks or do they pull from OUR statistics and it just didnt take them yet?

  • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    303·
    1 year ago

    Okay, so you would be willing to explain some basic marxist ideas to the viewer then?

    Great!

    How do fixed capital, ttotroptf, and the primary mode of worker alienation under capital intersect?(As described by Marx and not successfully criticized up to the present day) This has multiple answers and one of them can be a one word answer.

    That out of the way, on a personal note;

    I work on two different grassroots campaigns because a nearby hospital is closing and the lead pipes are poisoning the communities children. I am heading up internal reorganization to make my org safer, and am donating most of my salary from my bullshit job that lets me post and organize for most of the day to socialist orgs, while surviving as a multiracial trans woman in a rural area of a deep red state. I’m currently reading socialist and anarchist texts written in the last 5 years, on hiatus from reading a book about the soviet dual monetary system because it is machine translated from Russian and is a slog.

    I have more respect for the least educated hexbear slacktivists than I do for anti-communist “socialists” like yourself.

    Log the fuck off and start from the basics again, because you’ve obviously misunderstood them based on all the dogshit takes I’ve seen from you. All the anarcho syndies I know who actually do shit would not get along with your sorry ass.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      42·
      1 year ago

      Yeah buddy, I’m not your monkey. If you want to have an actual conversation about why, eg, autocracy doesn’t do jack shit to resolve exploitation via labor alienation and commodification, I’m here for it. Or if you want to go over why the complete lack of actionable framework for curating the political agency of the individual is, in fact, one of the most glaring and widely discussed holes in Marxist orthodoxy, I’d love to pull that string.

      But if you are just going to be another smug sectarian who insists on making dishonest campist garbage the bottom of their moral well, then I guess we can keep taking pot shots at eachother. I just think the internet deserves a better class of socialist.

      • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        Yeah buddy, I’m not your monkey.

        I’m sure you can definitely answer it, mhmm. Very believable.

        autocracy doesn’t do jack shit to resolve exploitation via labor alienation and commodification, I’m here for it.

        This demonstrates a lack of basic knowledge of theory as well as data on how AES have developed their workplaces.

        But who knows, might be wrong. What did you read that lead you to this conclusion?

        Or if you want to go over why the complete lack of actionable framework for curating the political agency of the individual is, in fact, one of the most glaring and widely discussed holes in Marxist orthodoxy

        Who is an orthodox marxist though? Also, youre going to have to define individual agency if you dont think AES states don’t cultivate it.

        But if you are just going to be another smug sectarian

        Literally in a left unity instance, you’re the one claiming the vast majority of socialists throughout the world are bad when you claim they’re all autocratic.

        • socsa@lemmy.ml
          21·
          1 year ago

          Yes, people who unironically support Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism are supporters of autocratic, and in many cases tyrannical politics. These are first principles for the vast majority of people who study politics, all over the world. It only feels strange because places like hexbear and lemmygrad have this extremely weird liturgy, where vaguely expressing any form of the idea that some forms of autocracy can be more evil than some forms of capitalism is the worst sin.

          Really, the only thing which is confusing to me is why anyone who espouses egalitarian and queer friendly principles would associate with people who actively promote a global alliance of countries who would exterminate them. I don’t condone association with campists for the same reason I don’t condone association with Republicans.

          • s0ykaf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            171·
            1 year ago

            some forms of autocracy can be more evil than some forms of capitalism is the worst sin.

            where i live a person born among the poorest 10% would take an average of nine generations to reach the middle class. nine. that’s about 20 million people condemned, by birth, to a life of deep poverty, lacking even the most basic goods such as food and housing

            all, and i mean all AES states solved this problem either completely or nearly so by giving people decent jobs, education, health care and housing

            so yea it’s impossible for me to not find you people absolutely ridiculous when you talk shit about said states just because they “arrested too many citizens” or didn’t allow enough fucking free speech. you can rip my fucking tongue off if it means i don’t have to see my people getting fucked on a daily basis

          • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            141·
            1 year ago

            Yes, people who unironically support Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism are supporters of autocratic, and in many cases tyrannical politics. These are first principles for the vast majority of people who study politics, all over the world.

            Most socialists in the world are some type of ml or maoist. Yes, I bet they teach in capitalist schools all over the world that the enemies of capitalism are some kind of monsters. But people actually exposed to socialism in practice seem to think much differently. The CPC has a 95 percent approval rating according to international pollsters. But Im guessing you know better than 1.3 billion Chinese folks about their government.

            Really, the only thing which is confusing to me is why anyone who espouses egalitarian and queer friendly principles would associate with people who actively promote a global alliance of countries who would exterminate them.

            Ah yes, the GDR and Cuba, well noted for their exterminationist policies.

            Socialist countries have a better track record with trans issues than capitalist countries at similar levels of wealth. Socialist countries also don’t create far right death squads all over the world that just happen to also exterminate queer folks. There is a reason why so many maoists in the Philippines are queer.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            The biggest tell of someone who doesnt know anything about Marxism is someone who talks about “Stalinism” as if it’s a thing, as if Stalin himself wasn’t pretty much just a Leninist.

  • rizoid@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how many of the accounts on world are ones that are just left for dead as people moved around to other instances. I myself was day one on world but the outages became too much.

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Made my first Lemmy account on Lemmy.world on the first weekend of June, but the outages of late June/early July pushed me (with some encouragement from others who’ve already made the jump earlier) to make a lemm.ee account. It was only supposed to be an alt, to be used when Lemmy.world is unusable, but the Meta fiasco then made me decide to make lemm.ee my main.

  • krolden@lemmy.ml
    135·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy.world is hosted in the USA? I wonder how long til it gets raided by the feds

  • gridleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Of course it’s the one instance where I accidentally capitalized my username and can’t change it to a lower case letter.

  • Hanabie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    148·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.

    It also doesn’t overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn’t run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).