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[–] 104 points 2 years ago (9 children)

August 2022

Old data, man.

It's even better now.

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    [–] [S] 98 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    Why are so many people racist against indians? This thread is a good example.

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

    I'm an instance admin and see heaps of the same stuff being posted. Pretty sure it's one lonely troll not lots of people. Even in this thread, it's all one user account not lots of different people, but we see the same stuff posted across lots of brand new accounts in a very similar way.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Makes sense. Even then a lot of the troll's comments are upvoted by a few people. There are definitely a few people here who share the troll's extreme opinions. Thanks for doing your part in removing all these bullshit. I wish lemmy had a way to block account creation by IP addresses. That might stop trolls from making dozens of alt accounts.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    We very often see the same username created across many instances, it's very easy to do and Lemmy has no protections against it. Plus, there are no protections against creating multiple accounts to upvote your own posts (don't get any ideas 😆). IP blocks wouldn't work as instances are entirely independent, so there is no sharing of IP info across different instances.

    Currently there is at least some level of coordination across instances, though, such as Lemmy.world's Defense HQ, where instance admins can share info about spammers/trolls so we don't have to wait for a report from one of our own users. There's also Fediseer, but this protects against spam instances not spam accounts on mainstream instances.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Indians are present in big numbers on reddit and other websites due to how populated India is, how english is popular there and that they aren't contained in national platforms like their chinese neighbors. It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target. Just because they want someone to hate and laugh at to up their self-esteem.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I think it's due to the stereotypes and the bad experiences, I've had pretty bad experiences with indians in gaming (racist, annoying, begging) and work (incompetent, corrupt, etc), but I've also seen that from other people with different backgrounds, more importantly though is that I've also seen some amazing tutorials in YouTube from Indian peeps and I've also found some great repos from Indian devs as well.

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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Glad that there are govt. level systems who make use of Linux (mostly ubuntu ) systems here. For eg. , in kerala, all govt schools and colleges use linux for computer labs and academic activities, i guess the local body administration too use ubuntu.

    Only wish we could convince those private sector schools of the money they'll save converting those slow windows systems to linux.

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:

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    [+] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also consider the number of people in India. There is a massive Linux user base there.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an Indian myself this makes me happy :D

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    UnkownOS is a great privacy operating system. If users dont know what they are doing, then how can the government?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    Here's what it looks like in Morocco:

    Somehow we prefer using the Apple more than the Penguin.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How was this measured? Just asking cause a lot of PCs are sold with Linux there cause it's cheaper and the user immediately slaps a pirated Windows on after purchase.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    I wonder how many of them are using Kali Linux

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In Canada, Apple is taking most of the increase, I wish Linux was more prevalent but I'm happy to see the downward slope for Windows:

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Based india

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    That is impressive since the world share for Linux is something below 4%. So the uptake is over double of that of the rest of the world.

    Makes sense, when I check new distro/apps videos on YT, something like 70% of them are made by Indian people.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And from 2026 thanks to Microsoft it will raise more as I can’t possibly imagine everyone buying new computers just for windows 11

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    netbsd is just chilling somewhere in the corner, left to rot alone :(

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    It is hard to say Linux holds market share because Linux is not a bitch to be sold, but it's not hard to guess why people prefer it.

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