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Why Does Nobody Use Lemmy? (byte21516.xyz)
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This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

activitypub is a protocol. like email.

instances are just what provider you want to use, gmail, hotmail, outlook, etc.

and the 'platform' lemmy, piefed, mastroton, pixelfed, is just the aesthetics