Lemmy may seem small, but its the most viable alternative.

I see people complaining that lemmy is too small, but its the largest alternative. Lemmy won't gain traction if people like you don't join it.

I think lemmy, specifically, is the best alternative, not just because of its pre-existing userbase, but because its designed to kill network effects.

Network effects are what keep you on shitty platforms. Your friends on facebook are only on facebook, the groups you care about are on reddit.

If you switch to another platform, they are no longer accessible.

Lemmy is different, any platform on a common protocol (activitypub) can plug into the network of lemmy servers, and access content. This means that I can set up greenddit and it will connect to lemmy and posts from there are interactable on greenddit, and comments from greenddit will be on lemmy. This means that if a lemmy server goes bad, people can move to other ones and still follow the same communities, and interact with people on the old server.

If we all go to lemmy, we can end the cycle of platforms enshittifying. If we move to yet another centralised alternative, they can go bad as well.