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

Word got out about the amazing and intuitive UI, and the ease with which you can find and subscribe to your interests. Personally, I’m never going back to AOL.

Personally, I came here for the ads

Communism. Americans decided they would fight KKK and Nazism with the same vigor and discovered that communism was way better.

Everyone was watching the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie one day, they googled Motörhead after hearing them perform You Better Swim in the bar scene, and the rest is history.

haven't you heard? there's a virus called COVID that's causing lockdowns.

Aliens

The Mandela Effect

When Lemmy Kravitz said "it's Lemmy Time" and Lemmied all over those guys.

Lemmings have become the most popular animal on the planet, all the new users are confused as to what a lemming is.

somone is testing the new chat-gtp version and seeing if they could fool everyone.

Free sandwiches when you join

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.

Always loved Lemmy...

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 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!

Cordyceps outbreak

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.

People FINALLY realized the unethical behaviour of all major corporations and joined lemmy as a signal of the incoming revolution...

elon is going to buy lemmy

Instinctive migration.

It's because of the beautiful Pig Latin translation - Emmylay. That's brought in a few thousand on its own.

It has a much cuter mascot. Also the site is way more responsive and easy to navigate.

Motorhead announced a reunion tour with Dio and we got lost.

Has the best poutine

Roger Clark's questionable marketing strategy is paying off

King Julien

Plumber mixed up the intertubes.

I thought it's a platform for Motörhead fans

Actually I discovered that it's the illuminati activating a temporal imbalance, causing the same 72 hours to repeat itself until

People started to hate the new Digg layout and spilled over to Lemmy.

Because the elbows get chopped up faster than the concrete sets.

Life gave us Lemmy's so we got to squeeze Lemmy back in life's eyeball and say "I don't want your damn reddit!"

I heard some strange advertisements at the theatre before the Top Gun movie: They were saying something like

ymmel nioj?

It was me

hold on, lemmy think about it first...

Because I feel like Reddit is to good for me.

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.

Motörhead reunited and is doing a reunion tour. Fans are confusing Lemmy with Lemmy.