Because social networks are only as good as the people who are on them.

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.

Overall, because Lemmy is slow and boring mostly. I see headlines here and go to Reddit for the comments through the geddit crawler.

I use it for porn still

Because people do not care. It is that simple.

These comments are so braindead, Jesus Christ.

reddit has half functioning search.

Yeah, Reddit is not the ghost town I thought it would be after the mass exodus.

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?

He's such a disgusting greedy little pig boy who frankly belongs in a deep hole where nobody will find him 🙏

You can almost hear the EU lawyers cracking their knuckles and quietly saying: "about that user data protection."