This does not seem accurate, but perhaps I'm too close to see it? Do you have a source for this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/lightningnetwork/comments/190orn6/c...
There are a ton of outstanding technical issues that lightning has had that have just kind of been glossed over for the past half-decade because people start companies, raise funding, build small fortunes and their success is predicated on pretending those fundamental technical issues don't exist.
Don't get me wrong, L2 has its own set of technical issues. The complexity of L2 is high, and some of the currently popular L2 chains are not decentralized at all. But it has much higher usage and popularity than Lightning, and is being pushed forward strongly by the Ethereum Foundation itself.
Because payments happen been pairs, there's no easy count of activity. The best estimates I know of are things like https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/ which is almost 12 months old.
As to "no wallets support it", that's a strange thing to say, since lightning wallets support it, obviously.
I'm yet to see any comparable statistics in L2s on Ethereum? Was hoping you'd have something there, too :(
Lightening Labs, or whatever company owns, Lightning Network, should be able to pay for better quality shills I would think. Shame on a CEO like Elizabeth Stark for using poor innocent flobs like you to do their dirty work.
Lightning Labs is one of those companies, but they don’t own the protocol.
For example, https://acinq.co/, makes the Phoenix Wallet and Phoenixd, a node implementation that you can also run for yourself.