Well if you’re mainly on the English speaking web maybe the decline in education since 2013 plays a role.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-behind-the-decade-long-learning-recession-for-american-students

I’d also imagine tech and specifically internet illiteracy of older generations plays a role.

https://longevity.stanford.edu/older-adults-and-technology-moving-beyond-the-stereotypes/

Not to mention all the bots pretending to be users commenting on things.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/

The icing on the top is that the algorithms on social media probably know that this kind of wrong will keep you engaged enough to research and make posts about this kind of thing and so it sends it your way to keep your attention.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-hovercraft-full-of-eels/202604/why-algorithms-show-us-what-we-claim-not-to-want

It’s because Lemmy is a techy tinkering hub. The same skills and interests needed to be aware of and migrate to Lemmy lend themselves to people migrating to Linux.

Both are free and open source and arguably better than the alternatives of reddit and windows so of course there are a bunch of dorks on here trying to get you to switch.

Both also cut down on how much you can be spied on and manipulated by algorithms so that’s a big incentive to convert people too.

Edit: btw you should switch to linux

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