Because other sites still haven’t ramped up enough in specialized areas to provide anywhere near reddit’s level of interaction. If I’m stumped by some technical problem in a DIY project or my various niche hobbies, I can ask a question there and usually get good answers fast. Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.
Having said that, if they make Old Reddit unusable, as someone suggested might soon happen, I’m out.
Because other sites still haven’t ramped up enough in specialized areas to provide anywhere near reddit’s level of interaction. If I’m stumped by some technical problem in a DIY project or my various niche hobbies, I can ask a question there and usually get good answers fast. Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.
Having said that, if they make Old Reddit unusable, as someone suggested might soon happen, I’m out.
I see where you come from, but Reddit subscribers are usually inflated, and you don’t need thousands of people to answer a question