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Why is lemmy so popular in the Netherlands? (self.thenetherlands)

submitted 6 months ago by hellofriend to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 ?

[–] hellofriend 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hellofriend 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope for your sake that they govern well. I've heard that your new prime minister is an independent. Do you think that will help temper the far right coalition?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope for your sake that they govern well. I’ve heard that your new prime minister is an independent. Do you think that will help temper the far right coalition?

I'd expect the new prime minister to only be a messenger for the new coalition like a pizza delivery boy. But on the whole things could be worse, like in Hungary.

[–] hellofriend 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I'm glad neither of our countries have a Russian asset for a leader.