Probably because someone started and then all the others saw it and went with it? I’d say it’s the same dynamics as if you’re the first one parking your car in a (not so obvious) no-parking zone, and you come back two hours later and there is a whole line of parked cars behind your’s. It’s kind of inevitable, especially after the second person did it…
And I mean it’s a bunch of instances named like this. But not an outrageous number… We have quite some diverse names for instances. And lemmy.something is the other super popular choice.
Disproportionately high number of EU-Federation supporters?
I only know the one.
Wait…feddit.de changed to feddit.org? What happened?
I’m very new, so I’m not sure, but what I’ve heard is that the guy/gal that ran feddit.de had more important life things to deal with, so the community stepped up to create a new instance to replace it.
At least it redirects to feddit.it.
< federated reddit >.<country>
freddit?
yabba dabba do
Don’t forget Switzerland!