[...] I assume learning German is going to be an important step to socialize fully.

yeah Nürnberg doesn't have an established university and shares the major one from Erlangen, because of this you will find probably more English speaking people in Erlangen. But subcultures don't align general rules.

I don't think the local population is responsible for Scheuer or the CSU :') I also don't make Aachen (my other home) responsible for hosting Armin Laschet.

You will like the beer and fränkische Schweiz is awesome for biking. Coming from Rheinland people are a bit introverted though.

Ahh danke für mein Arm

Oder Firmen übernehmen die Subs und enthält dann nur noch Werbung ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000 at time of writing.

27k people doesn't sound too much but it depends on the lurker ratio

Previously there were 5 - 10 Github notifications per day; now they have risen to over 100 daily.

They should diversify their maintainer set and adopt more hierarchy if they can't keep up with notifications

[..] as a federation, the fediverse and all its projects collectively, can win the battle for the internet, and create a better, more enjoyable experience than the one forced upon us by these nefarious tech giants.

It is so funny that federation finally brings decentralization and what the Internet was meant to provide

Das klingt sehr lecker!