🆚 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.
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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.
It provides chronological feeds, community-based moderation, polls, media sharing, quote posts, and interoperability with other Fediverse platforms such as 
PeerTube, 
Lemmy, 
Pixelfed, and 
Threads through ActivityPub federation.
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Pricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.