I read this and I immediately understand that this project is being written by a man who isn't practical, isn't bothered with reality, and is solely focused on "How things should be and how everybody should act this way" rather than understanding how the world actually is.
Actually, a lot of people use Lemmy, and there's pretty decent content on it in the communities. I post Linux stuff mostly and my threads get a lot of comments. Or I'll ask questions like "What are everybody's cool not so well known websites" and get a ton of feedback. Accounts are accessible via Mastodon as well, it isn't ideal, but, it's some kind of start.
So, lots of people use it, actually. I haven't noticed any bots replying to each other like what Reddit is now adays reposting content and reposting top comments.
That seems like a very cynical take. Is it a stated goal or expectation of the author that more than what you deem "nobody" will use this over a centralized wiki? Is that what you're criticizing, or is it just handwaving the project away the same way one could say Linux distributions (see: year of the linux desktop) and other things "nobody uses" don't matter and are disjointed from reality?
I read this and I immediately understand that this project is being written by a man who isn't practical, isn't bothered with reality, and is solely focused on "How things should be and how everybody should act this way" rather than understanding how the world actually is.
No one uses Lemmy, man.