Overall, because Lemmy is slow and boring mostly. I see headlines here and go to Reddit for the comments through the geddit crawler.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
Why does anyone still use reddit? Why does anyone still use Twitter? Why does anyone still use Instagram?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
YeetPics@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
You don’t know why someone would use a social link aggregator… and you’re lamenting about this on a social link aggregator.
Why are you here?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 minutes ago
Almost like they asked about a specific site and not the concept of link aggregators or something
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Exactly. Really incomprehensible why are some people amazed at some things. We’re all different, with different motives, different needs, different levels of coziness and different views on privacy etc.
littlecolt@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Find me easier to access niche communities and I’ll be gone from reddit. I hoped Lemmy would blow up. Instead, reddit just shrank.
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Find me easier to access niche communities
Have fun trying to discuss anything that isn’t about linux, american politics or reddit/amazon/elon bad!!. Lemmy is just a decentralized circle jerk.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well i guess we should have seen it coming right. The people pissed enough with Reddit to leave were most likely to be technology proficient users and bourgeois hating leftists
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Some us prefer not drowning in bots and pathologically hostile individuals.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Forgot people whose only opinion is hating the website they’re on.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Yeah I really wish people in niche communities would just migrate over. I honestly don’t understand why they haven’t yet.
fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
Because Reddit unites everyone with the same interest in a single or at worst few subreddits. Lemmy has over 9000 instances with a bunch of communities each, half of which are defederating the other half without their users even knowing. If we thought reddit search was bad, lemmy search is non-existent. I really wanted lemmy to work, but even for someone with decent knowledge about tech it was a nightmare to figure this out. The main advantage of fediverse which is the decentralization turned out to be its main disadvantage with so much fragmentation and censorship in the form of defederation…
uranibaba@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I hoped Lemmy would blow up.
Blow up one server and three more will sprout.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Reddit has an absolutely massive wealth of community knowledge. If you want to find a community for $thing or gain obscure knowledge on $thing, that’s where you go (assuming there isn’t an old forum post from before Reddit killed forums).
Twitter is where a lot of people still are. If you’re the kind of person to care what a particular person says, that’s where you probably want to be.
Instagram is used by young people who have friends on Instagram.
It isn’t a great system, but it is the system that we have today. This is why legislation compelling Meta/Twitter/whothefuckever to act in an ethical manner is important. Social media is to some extent a natural oligopoly, and unless we get extremely, extremely lucky, the fediverse will always be a niche community.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
These comments are so braindead, Jesus Christ.
Eheran@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Because people do not care. It is that simple.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, Reddit is not rhetorical ghost town I thought it would be after the mass exodus.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Like we had a secret (or not so secret) desire for it to crumble so we can crack a beer and say good riddance. 😁
But in the end, business mostly as usual.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
I don’t get why more people didn’t move to Lemmy or mbin
bluewing@lemm.ee 53 minutes ago
Inertia is a bitch. That’s why.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
For Twitter it really doesn’t make sense because it has become undebatably a “Nazi bar”, metaphorically since they aren’t an actual bar, but they still support and tolerate Nazis (and other manners of horrible people). Some people insist that it isn’t and there are “normal level headed people there” but that doesn’t matter, it’s still a Nazi bar, because it accepts and tolerates Nazis. How can someone expect to not be judged for going to and hanging out in a place like that?
sag@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Why does anyone still use Reddit?
Some niche communities and content to repost on Lemmy
Why does anyone still use Instagram?
Friends and memes to repost on Lemmy
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
because their friends are there
or in reddit’s case, because they think their friends are there
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What’s wrong with Instagram now?
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Centralized and owned by meta. Harvesting your data constantly. Ads upon ads that track you. Proprietary.
Mwa@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
i seen a few people still use it my friend,some random people in a server,etc
Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Maybe because they just want to???
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I use it for porn still
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 minutes ago
first Tumblr banned porn, then Reddit requires sign-in for 18+ content (I know old UI bypasses that), and now Twitter has become a walled garden as well. Bad times for gooners