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I still don’t know what ich_iel is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask
It started as a German version of me_irl (hence the name “ich im echten Leben”) and developed a culture on its own including bad translations from English and other insiders
As in “ze
motorboathovercraft is full of iel”?Hovercraft, but yes
“War’s schon immer.”
I blocked that both on Reddit and here at the very beginning, without knowing what iel means, the posts were mostly unsympathetic and irritating.
“So, you said you’re auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?”
“Uhh… memes. You can tell they’re fire, but I can’t read them.”
Doing the same with french to understand the [email protected] 's memes
Who could possibly think that???
I’m legitimately trying to learn German because of this
Weiter so! Ich lerne auch Deutsch.
Yes I do like German.
I’m genuinely trying to renaturalize to Germany eventually and all I need is to learn German, so this ended up being a happy accident
I find the lack of “SPRICH” in here disturbing.
But there is a lot of “DEUTSCH” in here, so…
aber “DU”, da geht noch was!
How are there so many of them
That sounds linke you are not one of them, yet your posting history suggests to differ.
My cover is blown 🥸
“Toastbrotmann” ist jetzt auch nicht wirklich die beste Verkleidung.
aber auch nicht die schlechteste
Are we learning German now?
There are several steps between learning German and comprehending whatever the fuck we’re doing over there.
Would it help to have mental illness? Cause if so, I’ll dust off some of these old Rammstein CDs and meet you guys over there after I get more proficient.
Ja
Actually I started before Lemmy but I’m bad at it still
To try and answer the question of why so many of them. Please note this is broad generalizations:
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german people have large privacy and date security fears. This has kept them off of many other platforms. Most people in my friends circle never had a MySpace / Facebook… Being in an anonymous space like here is nice.
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they also are and have been technologically behind in many ways. Bringing them slower to other platforms that they would have started off on, making it so they didn’t use any. Ignorance and fear of technology and privacy fear combined with being technologically slower meant they were going on other platforms in a time when the platforms were getting known as “bad, mentally harmful, data mining & selling machines”.
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English language skills are lower in Germany (outside of Berlin). Many tourists don’t see this as they go to touristy things (hotels, attractions) where they speak English. It is easy in platforms like this or reddit to be in a German speaking bubble. People who speak lots of English like their neighbors the Dutch, would more likely just post in English as everyone can then understand it.
Source: my opinions - but I do live in Germany.
Dont forget 4: Lemmy was created by a German (me)
Really? I didn’t know that?! Super cool and thx for commenting! Do you have any more info on this (something I can read somewhere)?
Also… I don’t know if I ever will have an opportunity like this again… I would love a feature like I had in RIF (Reddit is Fun), and that is to be able to collapse all child comments in the comment section! It removes a lot of clutter and you can then expand the child comments when you want more on that topic. I use Jebora for lemmy for reference.
Not sure what more you want to read, but Dessalines and me do AMAs once in a while where we answer all sorts of questions. You can find them in [email protected].
And I don’t work on Jerboa, you have to open an issue for this if there isn’t already.
Thank You (Or should I say Danke?).
Gern geschehen!
2.: the other way around, UK & US are too fast about adopting new privacy-violating tech, think too less about the why and how. With companies, less regulation too; yes, you have more startups. But some of you guys are slowly starting to notice the dystopia you’ve created.
3.: doesn’t really apply, since lemmy is quite tech-centric and english is a required skill there.
2)True true.
german people have large privacy and date security fears. This has kept them off of many other platforms. Most people in my friends circle never had a MySpace / Facebook… Being in an anonymous space like here is nice.
While this is true for me(*) - partially, it’s not a fear, it’s a certainty that my data is not secure anywhere online - I would be positively surprised (but kind of doubt that) if younger people actually think consciously about their online privacy.
* never had myspace, deleted all my facebook posts, comments, contacts & then account in 2012 when they changed the terms & conditions to own everything you upload - and before then I had never used my real last name there
The biggest reason you missed, German communities have already been big on reddit, and quite a few germans were involved in the initial discussion to move to Lemmy or Kbin.
Very true. Lemme is reddit… Or how reddit was when it was good. They liked reddit then for the same reason I did and why I don’t use it and why we are here.
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The conflict between seeing so many German users but also wanting more people on Lemmy altogether. Alright Germans… You win this time
I see more Dutch content than German.
I filter non-english subs whenever I can (Sorry I want to be able to read things) ;v;
There doesn’t seem to be an automatic way to do this though
There doesn’t seem to be an automatic way to do this though
Actually there is a very simple way for doing exact this: Go to your profile -> settings -> languages
The only settings i see are these, and if I navigate to my own profile I don’t see any unique setting buttons.
default listing All default post sort Hot default comment sort Hot theme Dark endless scrolling auto load more hide instance names hide thumbnails collapse inline media open links in new window expand marks read
are you using a browser or any lemmy client? in a browser:
Desktop: click on your username, located on the upper right corner
Mobile: click on the menu icon in the upper right corner, then on your username.
Now click on “settings”
It should look like this now:
I promise I’m not stupid, but uhhhh, when I click on my name, it brings me to a page that looks like a community with an overview of everything I’ve posted, but there’s not an option to select a language.
That said, I was also spooked off by the “You won’t see most content” thing, which led me to believe that a lot of communities aren’t language tagged properly(?)
I promise I’m not stupid, but uhhhh, when I click on my name, it brings me to a page that looks like a community with an overview of everything I’ve posted,
Strange. I get that only when I click on my name and then choose “profile” instead of “settings”.
You are on lemmy.world, aren’t you?
It turns out old.lemmy.world doesn’t have it lmao.
I hate the newer style look so uh, yeah.
Ah. But at least now we both know, why you couldn’t find it. Good luck with that feature (if you are going to use it).
Moin!
Ich im echten Leben
Wo sind meine Zuhausis?
