My lemmy users per capita guess: 1. Russia 2. Finland. I can understand Russia cause developers are from there but why Finland?
There’s also a huge Linux community, and Linus Torvalds is a Finn. Possible connection, or just coincidence?
When the subreddits “going dark” episode was happening on Reddit, the admins of /r/suomi (the Finnish-speaking equivalent of /r/finland) decided to keep the subreddit privated for much longer than most others. This may have led to a slightly higher percentage of Finnish users finding a new home here on Lemmy compared to other nationalities.
Good mods
I don’t think that Lemmy is more popular in Finland, Sopuli or Finnish users may just stand out more.
And judging by instance statistics (at Join-Lemmy for instance), it’s Germany where Lemmy is more popular. Discuss.techns.de alone has total 6595 users and 794 monthly users. Sopuli for comparison has currently 4957 total users and 489 monthly users.
The instance user count statistics really don’t tell anything. For example, I’m a Finn and I don’t speak German at all but still my account is on tchncs.de. This instance is open to everyone, the same way than Sopuli is not just for Finnish-speaking folks.
I’m not from Finland but I’ve been playing a lot of My Summer Car and just figured out how to take a sauna and got the Welcome to Finland achievement.
Also not Finnish, but the first time I used the sauna in that I came back from the shop to my house being burnt to the ground.
Apart from that minor detail the game does lead me to believe I’m spiritually Finnish.
