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Oh you live in South Sudan and are on Lemmy? I think you're the first person from Africa I encounter here. I guess you're a imigrant? Or are you born there?
Just to put things into perspective:
Bottom line, can't automatically assume that someone from South Sudan, isn't richer, better educated, more experienced, or whatever in this day and age (¹). I bet you can find a bunch of "mid class" people with an interest in FOSS in the capital.
PS: once upon a time, I ended up in an FPS game with a kid from the middle east, who after some casual conversation, and some Googling, turned out to likely be the second son of the prince's nephew... and it wasn't a scam, just a kid who wanted to play a game.
(¹: this was the goal of all who contributed to the popularization of Internet access, and it's nice to see it working)
My point has nothing to do with money or education, but that Lemmy is practically only used in North America and Europe (with Japan being the exception of the rule). Here in South Korea nobody other than a few immigrants use it. So I wanted to know if this is the same case in African countries or if they are themselves born there and still somehow found Lemmy and started using it.
Ah... nevermind then, I read it as possibly meaning something else.
I've noticed that Lemmy instances seem to be largely populated by "Reddit refugees", which was a mostly English-speaking demographic in the first place. Even in Europe, the (I think) only Spanish instance, has closed earlier this year... but Lemmy itself is a EU-backed project, so there's hope for some larger adoption, maybe.
I feel like every kid I passed in the middle east was glued to a phone playing pubg.
Indeed I only work here for a time.
Why did you assume they're an immigrant?
I explicitly asked if they are one or the other. But my guess that they are an immigrant comes from the sentence before where I say that they are the first person on Lemmy I saw coming from an African country. I see the same here in Korea, if you look at [email protected] which seems to be the most subscribed Korean community on lemmy, only the server Admin seems to be Korean, everyone else seems to be a immigrant like me, because Lemmy is very focused on North America and Europe.
Uhhh... wut?
What is so weird about that? I am a immigrant in Korea and one of the very few who access Lemmy from Korea. I also haven't seen anyone from South Sudan on Lemmy before that person so I wondered how it became known there, and I don't think the assumption that a immigrant who already has contact with people from north america and Europe would know about Lemmy in South Sudan in comparison to local people -like here in Korea - is so outlandish.
O_o