🆚 Lemmy vs. Mastodon
- 📈 Mastodon is much more popular than Lemmy.
- 🌎 Mastodon is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Lemmy is more popular in Mali.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LemmyType
Social media platform
Social media platform
About
Lemmy is a decentralized social link aggregator platform running on independent servers and powered by the open-source Lemmy software.
It utilizes the 
ActivityPub protocol for federation across the Fediverse, organizes content into distinct communities, supports upvoting and downvoting, and allows users on different servers to communicate.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network running on independent servers and powered by 
Mastodon open-source software.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Social Media › Rank #80
Social Media › Rank #25
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Mastodon social media platform is 90 times more popular than Lemmy.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Mastodon is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Lemmy is more popular in Mali.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Canada
Italy
Switzerland
Vietnam
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Sweden in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Ireland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Mastodon is more popular than Lemmy in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Nostr🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.