This is not going to be a blogpost about “Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?”. I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven’t even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.
I don’t use Mastodon or Twitter either. I never understood following specific people and prefer following topics instead.
Mastodon allows you to follow hashtags, which would be like following a topic.