and it’s not just any cat, his cat is famous!

totally, they’d rather have the whole world burn than stop protecting their god-chosen elite

i’ve got the longest pasSWORD

there were idiots back then, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Francisco

Members of the anti-mask league also agitated for San Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr., to resign if he did not repeal the ordinance. The president of the League, suffragist, attorney, and labor rights activist Mrs. E.C. Harrington, was a fierce critic of the mayor, and it has been suggested that the anti-mask league protests were politically motivated.

this has not changed. also as a European, we also excelled in idiocy during covid periods and had our fair share of anti-vaxxers and anti-masks crowd that staged some mass protest and riots, in one case they were even about to storm the german parliament

is this an actual mask on the cat or is it it’s natural fur colour?

pics or it didn’t happen

Los Barbudos 2.0

Lara Croft would have held her balance

someone is really confident in the GPU, RAM, SSD etc. prices… i smell insider trading!

i like how your german reflects eastern german accent lol dit is jut

apparently it has navidrome support :) navidrome enables you to have your own music library on a device from that you then stream it on your other devices

English, German and Spanish at native level, decent level of french, and i can fuss together itañolo and portunhol and read it without mayor difficulties.
but i got comfortable and stopped learning more :/

Cloudhiker.net is another Stumbleupon clone. also Ye Olde Blogroll for finding indie blogs (blogroll.org)

Micro.blog and bearblog.dev both have great communities too, if you’re into blogging.

and finally: check out neocities, it’s like geocities but still alive

yeah, i looked for old data,because my whole point was the early adoption of internet usage which might translate into preferences of the old web and by extension to the fediverse.
i edited my post to reflect that, thanks for the feedback :)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Internet-usage-in-Europe-2000-2007_tbl9_4891139

we can distinguish a few groups:

1. relatively wealthy countries with high percentages of internet adoption but with a small population size which translates into relative small proportions (green)
2. relatively less wealthy countries with lower percentages but with bigger population size which makes for bigger proportions (red)
3. relatively wealthy countries with high percentages with a big population size which translates into big proportions (violet)

as we can see from the statistics, Germany is sporting the biggest total amount of internet users relative to the other European countries.

another relevant aspect is the percentage of growth, and Germany has one of the lowest growth rate compared to other countries while having a high percentage of users, which implies an early adoption of internet users.

linear regression could probably be used to find the relation between wealth and internet usage.

the case of Portugal is really interesting though, as it’s a less wealthy country but sporting a high percentage of internet users. Maybe there was some government subsidies?

HANS, GET ZE SPAMWERFER!

Also i think it’s because of germans having a bigger notion of data protection and that huge corporations are bad, which is why a lot more people are changing from reddit to fediverse.
i can only compare it to spanish people, and i definitely see a lot more concern in german people.

another reason might be economic wealth, having the strongest currency next to the pound in the 80s and 90s, this could mean that early adoption of PCs and dial-up was more spread than in other European countries because of the relative cost difference of equipment. This early adoption could also mean that more people got to know the ‘old web’ and are more appreciative of non-standardised web content.
it’s only hypothesises, i have no data to support it (yet)

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edit:/ can someone please tell me what it the proper way to link to communities?