I remember seeing lemmy maybe 4+ years ago on some open-source subreddit. It had practically non-existent user base, so I’ve ignored it. After that, I remember a first wave of people making mastodon accounts (even before elon). There I’ve first heard of concept of “fediverse”. I liked the idea but I honestly thought it had zero chances to compete with mainstream social media.
And then everything turned to shit, making a gap between something like lemmy and reddit a lot smaller. So I’ve jumped the ship with everyone after the API shitstorm.
You can put egregious amount of cheese on anything and it would taste atleast half as good as pizza.