You're nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye bye.
I should clarify that NLnet is probably not a commercial company like Skeb is. I know translation exists but all the Lemmy support chatrooms are in English.
Reddit was (and still is) seen as foreign/overseas social media. Other social media platforms are much more diverse than Reddit. Twitter, TikTok, and Insta for example. YouTube and Facebook too.
Most people here in Lemmy come from Reddit. Reddit is very popular in the Western world. It's not popular outside of it.
In the context of the larger Fediverse, I think Misskey is an interesting case study. It's created and designed by Japanese people. The docs are in Japanese. It's sponsored by a Japanese company. Resources and support are also in Japanese. Therefore it has a strong Japanese userbase.
On the other hand, Lemmy is created and designed by Western people. The docs are in English. It's sponsored by a Western company. Resources and support are in English. Therefore it has a strong Western userbase.
Also I should point out that other than Twitter, Instagram, etc. there are some platforms operated by non-Western companies. China has a lot of those like Bilibili, Weibo, Baidu, etc. Korea has Katalk and Line, etc etc. They aren't popular outside of the region.
edit: I should probably clarify. It's not like we don't use Reddit. It's just not as popular.
It was 8mb then 25mb then 10mb now (for non-Nitro users)
I think the irony here is that the user-friendliness experience of Bluesky stems from it being a centralized service (in practice). I seriously doubt most people who signed up for Bluesky even understand what "decentralized social media" means.
I'm not saying Lemmy (and the greater Fediverse) can't improve, but it's clear that the biggest barrier for most people is the decentralized aspect itself -- the core of the Fediverse -- which is something one shouldn't really "hide".
As long as the state of social media usership demands centralized practices, then the Fediverse will forever be at a disadvantage in gaining mass adoption in my opinion.
I remember this. Really crazy how this was all orchestrated. The girls were trained to be part of pranks unaware that they were going to commit murder at the end.