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Personally I am glad that decentralization is slowly picking up again with things like Lemmy and Mastodon. To me using it does not feel all that different from Reddit actually (UI-wise).
I grew up in the days of the old internet where newgroups and mailing lists were the way to interact with other "netizens" (a term I have not heard being used in years btw). Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it. Lemmy has that advantage too currently of smaller, ideologically-inclined, and willing-to-jump-a-few-hoops people.
TL;DR: I've no issues with using Lemmy and I like it so far, including smaller size of the community.
Honestly my issue with Mastodon is the lack of any algorithm whatsoever. I know algorithm is often seen as a bad word, but even just a simple upvote and interaction based thing would be nice to make cool posts more visible. I like that Lemmy has this like Reddit. For me Lemmy has been much more successful in replacing Reddit than Mastodon was in replacing Twitter.