Seconded.
A lot of people blame this on people losing their social skills during COVID, but I remember people doing it when I was in high school in the mid-2010s.
Mostly I watch horror movies and Halloween specials from when I was younger.
I also still live with my folks, so I manufacture reasons not to have to hand out candy.
Does being rich turn people into rapists or do a disproportionate number of rapists get rich?
It's like one of those Disney rip-off cartoons that somehow has a thousand sequels.
As someone who only recently joined Lemmy (as a result of getting booted from Reddit) it ultimately comes down to it being bigger.
You can talk regularly about series have been over for a decade. Just about any niche interest has a vibrant community. The reality is the average person doesn't care about it selling our data, putting a fingerprint on our gear one step above spyware, it being overrun with bots, every level of administration being dominated by megalomaniacs. If you just want to look through some stuff you're interested in while you're bored, it serves a purpose that lemmy unfortunately can't at it's size.