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Why are there so many Germans on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] greenbelt@lemy.lol 7 points 14 hours ago

Germans invented the printing press. They seem always at the front of decentralized media distribution technology lol.

[-] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

*took credit for inventing the printing press ;-)

[-] greenbelt@lemy.lol 2 points 12 hours ago

They were the first to scale printing to mass producing the bible ... and introducing mass literacy in their country.

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