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’ll bite I guess. I use Firefox with ublock to browse two niche communities. One is for the small city I live in which is relatively active and a very useful source of local news/events info. I’ll stop using reddit if I can’t use an ad blocker or if they make me use an app etc.

Because I don’t want to make another account just for an AutoHotkey discussion board, but /c/AutoHotkey is dead while /r/AutoHotkey is very much alive. The same can be said for so many other subs. Why else would one stay there?

I don’t have an active account anymore (mine got banned because I called someone a fascist sanewasher and any new account I try to make gets immediately banned), but I still browse Reddit specifically because there are several subreddits for my local area (my county, my suburb, and the big city nearby) which are pretty active. I get a lot of local information from there which really isn’t available in such a concise way anywhere else.

The groups specific to life/legal issues/visa issues/finance in Japan steadfastly refuse to move so I visit for those only.