🆚 Lemmy vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Lemmy.
- 🌍 WhatsApp is more popular in all countries.
Lemmy
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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.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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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
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging 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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Meta company profile🗃️ 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.