Technology

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.

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

Because people do not care. It is that simple.

These comments are so braindead, Jesus Christ.

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

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

reddit has half functioning search.

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 🙏

Well......the problem is reddit's size.

I'm not part of reddit anymore because they filtered me out for abusive content.

The content that was so abusive? I told a story on /r/Cleveland about the time 35 years ago I got my bike stolen.

I wasn't accusing any current reddit user of being the theif. But reddit bots flagged me of being abusive to other users.

We don't even know if that guy who stole my bike 35 years ago is even still alive, much less an active redditor on /r/Cleveland. So who am I being abusive to, when I say it's a bad idea to let strangers ride your bike without some kind of assurance you'll get it back?

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

From article

Reddit challenged its designation on the basis that it is mostly a text-based discussion platform, and links to videos uploaded elsewhere on the internet should not be factored in. The Irish regulator counter-argued that the audio-visual content on the platform is extensive, and pointed to its enormous reach, with 73 million daily users.

Could not find any post statistics, but they probably are correct and percentage wise uploaded videos should be at the bottom, but total count probably is too large to be simply disregarded. Reddit probably has more videos than Vimeo which is purely video based. And if Reddit would be in the clear then so should be Twitter and Facebook since those too are primarily text based.