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I mean it's hard to argue this isn't true. Mastodon (and Lemmy) have a fraction of the userbase of Twitter (and Reddit).
I want to think that Lemmy will be immune to this to some extent compared to Mastodon, since I think personally Twitter-style engagement is worse and less interesting than Reddit-style engagement.
But the author does address this point a little bit:
The rebuttal I would offer is that if people create higher-quality content and higher-quality communities in Lemmy, then I think people will continue aggregating into it. There's nothing special about Reddit per se; it started at nowhere too. And there are a ton of subs that required really strict ideological purity so that isn't a fediverse-exclusive problem either.
Still, I think the article is largely correct about Mastodon, and that it's reasonable to be concerned for Lemmy.