5 mo. ago • 93%

Why is lemmy so popular in the Netherlands?

Been poking around All recently and I've noticed that there is more lemmy activity in Dutch than any other non-English language. German following that, and then Portuguese (I think, maybe Spanish). I see more Nederlander posts than even the UK instances. So what's up with this? Cheers from Canada 😙

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I say hello from the low lands, but I mostly feel like I’m alone here. Who else is from NL?

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I mean, I personally don't think it's that popular, but I guess that the few Dutch users who are on Lemmy, just post a lot. I personally post often about Dutch football, in !eredivisie@feddit.nl

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There was no instance for Belgium when I joined, so I am a Dutch imposter 🥸

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Why is lemmy so popular in the Netherlands?

Not sure it really is ? Where do you see all the posts in Dutch except here in this rather quiet place :) ?

feddit.de has problems with their server administration but I would expect them to have more posts in German.

And this German Lemmy has English and German posts : https://discuss.tchncs.de/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=Active

Anyway, hello from the Low Lands. How's Canada these days ?
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- It seems like a lot are on lemy.nl.
  
  As for Canada, we're having a lot of problems. Unaffordable housing, food inflation, so on and so forth. Doesn't seem like things will get better for a while, either. How goes it over there?
  
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  It seems like a lot are on lemy.nl.
  
  I see. But that is a Lemmy site with bots posting and no comments.
  
  As for Canada, we’re having a lot of problems. Unaffordable housing, food inflation, so on and so forth. Doesn’t seem like things will get better for a while, either.
  
  So sorry to hear that.
  
  How goes it over there?
  
  Bad. Far right government is almost ready to start governing, but if you ask me, things were already pretty bad. I guess it could be much worse though.
  
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I'm on a Dutch instance but it looks very quiet (I do have bot accounts disabled though).

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- Yeah, after disabling various bots reposting from nos and other sources, there doesn’t seem much left from the Netherlands.
  
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  Oh, maybe this is what I'm seeing. :/
  
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Oh interesting, I didn't know you could view the origin. Tbh wondering where the activity is coming from, because all activity in Dutch I see is pretty low. Maybe some bots? Or do you mean that a lot of traffic originates from the Netherlands?

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- No, I just mean so much of it is in Dutch, on a .nl instance, or both.
  
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  Where are you finding all these Dutch posts? This is the only vaguely active Dutch sub I know of
  
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It's not? First time I've seen anything Dutch. And I am Dutch

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I mostly read on other Lemmy's or however you say that. But I still come across this post. :)

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