Basically, as the title asks, Nooki is effectively dead in terms of activity compared to Lemmy which is actually pretty active, but ATproto, which Nooki uses, has a larger userbase than ActivityPub, doesn’t that seem odd to anyone else or is it just me?
Nooki should be more active than it seems like it is at least on my end.
I get what you mean, but ultimately I think the services are just different, regardless of protocol. It’s (kinda sorta) like going back several years and saying “Twitter has a bunch of users but Reddit doesn’t, why is that when both are on http?”
Even something like, Lemmy and Mastodon - I use both, but not because they can talk to each other over AP. I want different stuff out of Twitter-likes and Reddit-likes. I like the decentralization of providers, but don’t care much to have different types of apps intercommunicate.
Bluesky really caught on, mostly by starting out with the simplicity of a single, centralized service (also having a bunch of VC money). But that doesn’t mean much imo for other things on ATproto.
So that’s to say, I think the real question is just why Lemmy has done better than Nooki. And for that I think it’s all down to timing tbh. Lemmy was already here when Reddit started degradifying a lot.
I hadn’t heard of Nooki. Has it been good in your experience?
It’s been fine aside from being completely dead.