Because everyone is still on reddit. And people go/stay wherever there is the content they’re looking for. The “issues” with reddit are not something most people come across or are even aware off.
Also, the fediverse have a very, very high entry cost. “pick an instance” is not that obvious, even now. It’s a choice that will affect what you can and can’t see. And that will change over time, for various reasons. Moving from instances to instances is not really an option in some cases. If you’re tech-savvy you’ll spend the time to look into it, find the instance for you (or, more likely, the instanceS, plural, because people fight over the silliest things), then know that some posts come from other systems and will look weird, know that in some communities just picking up “english” will hide most of the stuff, despite actually being in english, know that moderation can be wonky, know that the numbers you see are not always to be trusted, especially community activity, etc.
Then, discoverability is not great either; you have to look hard to find something interesting related to you. For all the issues with “algorithmic discovery”, such as obvious bias and silencing, it feels like it works better with one centralized platform for a majority of people. Whether it’s actually true or not is irrelevant, people want that (that’s why it’s so prevalent in the first place).
Also also, and this might be controversial, a lot of people that “jumped” from centralized services like reddit to lemmy (and from twitter to mastodon, etc.) are quite… “enthusiast” with the change. Frighteningly so. And in this group, not everyone is exactly friendly and welcoming to newcomers. Given two option, one that “just work”, and one that requires work, it’s surprisingly easy to turn people away. That’s not really a technical issue, but it’s a thing. When someone shows up on a new platform and makes a mistake, how it’s handled is a big influence on if they’ll stay here or not. If their first reply is “you’re an idiot, never do that, and if we don’t see you again, good riddance”, that’s not a good look.
tl;dr: reddit works for an immense majority of people, and the alternative is a (relatively) niche and tedious operation full of new quirks.
Because everyone is still on reddit. And people go/stay wherever there is the content they’re looking for. The “issues” with reddit are not something most people come across or are even aware off.
Also, the fediverse have a very, very high entry cost. “pick an instance” is not that obvious, even now. It’s a choice that will affect what you can and can’t see. And that will change over time, for various reasons. Moving from instances to instances is not really an option in some cases. If you’re tech-savvy you’ll spend the time to look into it, find the instance for you (or, more likely, the instanceS, plural, because people fight over the silliest things), then know that some posts come from other systems and will look weird, know that in some communities just picking up “english” will hide most of the stuff, despite actually being in english, know that moderation can be wonky, know that the numbers you see are not always to be trusted, especially community activity, etc.
Then, discoverability is not great either; you have to look hard to find something interesting related to you. For all the issues with “algorithmic discovery”, such as obvious bias and silencing, it feels like it works better with one centralized platform for a majority of people. Whether it’s actually true or not is irrelevant, people want that (that’s why it’s so prevalent in the first place).
Also also, and this might be controversial, a lot of people that “jumped” from centralized services like reddit to lemmy (and from twitter to mastodon, etc.) are quite… “enthusiast” with the change. Frighteningly so. And in this group, not everyone is exactly friendly and welcoming to newcomers. Given two option, one that “just work”, and one that requires work, it’s surprisingly easy to turn people away. That’s not really a technical issue, but it’s a thing. When someone shows up on a new platform and makes a mistake, how it’s handled is a big influence on if they’ll stay here or not. If their first reply is “you’re an idiot, never do that, and if we don’t see you again, good riddance”, that’s not a good look.
tl;dr: reddit works for an immense majority of people, and the alternative is a (relatively) niche and tedious operation full of new quirks.