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Like 75% percent of the network runs on the official matrix.org servers and small scale selfhosting is not all that feasible, given how resource hungry Synapse is (although that is getting slowly better).
That's not a technical but a social issue though. Matrix doesn't have dozens but hundreds of installations. I guess your 75% are exaggerated.
With that argument you should not like Lemmy. Way more than 75% of the network is from Lemmy.ca . It takes time for things to decentralise as long as the ability is there.
Matrix isn't a super young project like Lemmy though, and Lemmy has the explicit goal to be lightweight to self-host. Oh and Lemmy doesn't have a (basically) centralized identity server like Matrix.