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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[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And Reddit was small for years and years when it started. I don't even think I really started using it till around 2013-2014. Didn't have a username or anything just came across it through Google searches. All websites take a while to build a userbase.

[–] TiredDinoByte@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

This I think is the main problem to adoption. It's very hard to come across Lemmy results on a search engine even if I'm trying to specify Lemmy. (Not that search engines matter for most people these days what with the LLM executive summary pushing out real web pages, who needs resources when you have slop, am I right? \s)