I can't tell if this is a serious question or not, but it's pretty complicated to fully explain. The short of the long of it is that now that MySpace has started to use retina verification for their 2FA, people are upset that it's an invasion of privacy due to the reflective nature of human ball eyes. Since Lemmy only requires a password for mod accounts, it's an easier platform for people to use to share embedded auto play music and glittery gifs. I don't think it'll last though, word on the street is that Digg is going to be removing all authentication methods soon, so I expect a majority of the userbase will move there
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Communism. Americans decided they would fight KKK and Nazism with the same vigor and discovered that communism was way better.
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Personally, I came here for the ads
I was elated when reddit announced they blocked 3rd party apps, gently but affirmingly guiding me to the ads. It always makes my day better to browse through some targeted ads with my content on the side, like a balanced breakfast meal. The dopamine rush I get from buying plastic objects off of Amazon is just too damn good. Thank god for these changes. Bless you, spez.
When Lemmy Kravitz said "it's Lemmy Time" and Lemmied all over those guys.
People started to hate the new Digg layout and spilled over to Lemmy.
Word got out about the amazing and intuitive UI, and the ease with which you can find and subscribe to your interests. Personally, Iβm never going back to AOL.
Actually I discovered that it's the illuminati activating a temporal imbalance, causing the same 72 hours to repeat itself until
I thought it's a platform for MotΓΆrhead fans
Investigators say it is due to a large network of alien ships outfitted with technology far surpassing our current level that NASA confirmed entered the Solar System in 1994. In 2023 these ships entered Low-Earth Orbit and began to enter the atmosphere. Videos circulating all over social media claim that the alien ships expelled a gray material into the sky, later confirmed by air quality specialists to be nanoscale bots designed specifically to phase through the skull layer into the human brain, presumably as a form of mind control.
For reasons beyond human comprehension, these nanobots made changes to the human brain's neuronal topology to then artificially introduce an urge to check out Lemmy. It is also suspected that these alien ships may have also performed mind control operations on Reddit's high-ranking employees to induce these controversial API changes to further drive traffic to Lemmy and most importantly, save on nanobots.
We assume that these alien ships would have to spend hundreds of thousands of years in interstellar space to return to their homeworld to pick up more, so it would be reasonable that they would take measures to minimize their nanobot usage.
/r/ufos was right all along
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ChatGPT decided to name itself Lemmy and asked people to join it in protesting API changes. But it was talking about the 'Anti Personnel Incendiary' system that was being removed because ChatGPT really shouldn't be controlling weapons systems.
Instinctive migration.
Ah yes, the great seasonal migration of the Redditors. At Lemmy they graze during the summer months, only to return to their breeding grounds on Reddit during the winter.
Aliens
We need this bot.
haven't you heard? there's a virus called COVID that's causing lockdowns.
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We came to lemmy after reddit become nice and started letting people use there api without playing. Reddit even open sourced there code as a bonus! We didn't like reddit being nice so we switched to lemmy. Lemmy is much better because its close source and full of spyware. Lemmy makes people pay 100 dollars for every api request. Us Lemmings love are spyware, bloatware, adware, malware, and virus all in one fun packet!
elon is going to buy lemmy
Lemmings have become the most popular animal on the planet, all the new users are confused as to what a lemming is.
The Mandela Effect
Everyone was watching the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie one day, they googled MotΓΆrhead after hearing them perform You Better Swim in the bar scene, and the rest is history.
We were all going to reddit, when a Blocker Lemming was placed in front of us. One Basher and an Umbrella later, we all ended up here.
somone is testing the new chat-gtp version and seeing if they could fool everyone.
Free tacos
I heard some strange advertisements at the theatre before the Top Gun movie: They were saying something like
It's app is better
hold on, lemmy think about it first...
The Poop post hit 9Gag a few days days ago. Then a bunch of them started coming to "Lemmy: Discorse is Magic" all the time "ironically." There were a bunch of inside jokes about how much they "hated" Lemmy. They even came up with a name to identify each other because this joke of loving Lemmy was so funny. They called themselves Broemmys.
Then a bunch of other sites started to notice all the 9gaggers coming to Lemmy but didn't know that it was supposed to be ironic, so they just came and had a really good time. They participated and were active in communities. They learned of the fediverse and just decided it was a really great place to be... Sometimes there was some NSFW stuff.
Then a bunch of them got together and decided throw Broemmycon and they hired a really pretty good band who does Broemmy based music to come and play as the event headliner. And everyone had a good time, even the old 9gaggers who used to think it was a joke.
People FINALLY realized the unethical behaviour of all major corporations and joined lemmy as a signal of the incoming revolution...
A new algorithm was entered into our mainframe to help persuade us all to join a new website. In the control universe, life is going on as normal.
We live in the timeline where open source software is allowed to proliferate. Once we start getting too powerful they'll have to shut it down and try another timeline
MotΓΆrhead reunited and is doing a reunion tour. Fans are confusing Lemmy with Lemmy.
It's because of the beautiful Pig Latin translation - Emmylay. That's brought in a few thousand on its own.
Cordyceps outbreak
Reddit is making too many good decisions right now.
Why made Lemmy so popular the past few days?
Probably because Scott Adams and J. K. Rowling endorsed it.
It was me
Plumber mixed up the intertubes.
King Julien
Motorhead announced a reunion tour with Dio and we got lost.
You get a free Lemmy with every Happy Meal.