But still it is not reddit before reddit api changes.
Nor Mastodon is Twitter in any moment of Twitter’s recent history.
Anyway. Regarding your post: it seems to me that the hashtag+short reply system is simply more popular than the community+long reply system. Even then, when compared with the platforms that it competes with, Lemmy’s popularity is proportional to the one of Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives.
Reddit alternatives too. You have no idea how slow this place was before the Reddit APIcalypse, this place is way more popular than it used to be.
Yeah this is becoming popular.
But in general, people somehow prefer platforms that look like Twitter.
Mastodon, Pleroma (and Gab, Truth based on Mastodon) and others are very similar in functionality with twitter.
But still it is not reddit before reddit api changes. And probably won’t have a new platform like reddit.
The only reason threads is this popular is because they have the marketing machine of Facebook and billions of dollars.
Plus they have monster hardware to support everything.
The fact that lemmy is where it is is already outstanding.
Nor Mastodon is Twitter in any moment of Twitter’s recent history.
Anyway. Regarding your post: it seems to me that the hashtag+short reply system is simply more popular than the community+long reply system. Even then, when compared with the platforms that it competes with, Lemmy’s popularity is proportional to the one of Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives.