[Discussion] German and English people, why do you think your communities/instances are much more active than the rest of the European ones?

Hello everyone,

I was having a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active, and it's quite interesting to see how different the country communities rank

• !dach: 1.4k weekly active users
• !unitedkingdom: 1.2k wau
• !casualuk: 942 wau
• !deutschland: 921 wau
• !france: 249 wau

The rest of the communities (linked in the sidebar) are much less active.

Which brings me to the next question: people from those communities, how do you explain such a difference? Was there guidance from Reddit on the official subs to show people how to migrate to Lemmy? Is it just more spread open source / Fediverse use in your countries?

I know for instance that on the French side, the /r/France mods removed the few posts we made at the time of the API issues, and still today we are limited to a tiny self-promotion post on Sunday, that barely no one reads.