Because it, like Mastodon, is a usability nightmare and literally nothing is being done to address it. All criticism falls on deaf ears and the community is hell bent on pushing their flawed vision through
There is plenty being done to address usability issues. Development activity exploded when Reddit announced the API changes (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity) and usability issues are discussed daily. Reddit's usability issues were (and are) glossed over by third party apps to this day.
So much of a nightmare that millions of people are using it, right ? Despite the dozens of alternative clients, not a single one of them deserves to not be called a nightmare right ?
Literally just made his point. Every single person keeps repeating it’s like email, as if email is a fantastic place to go get your news and interact with others.
But that's not email's use case at all. It's not being compared to email because they serve the same function otherwise there'd be no need for Lemmy. It's being compared as a distributed and open protocol, and where the comparison is important is in adoption, and email proves out that an open distributed system can achieve not only strong, but universal adoption. We pulled it off in the 80s on ridiculously weak hardware and snail pace internet, I'm sure it can be done again.
It's not like e-mail. It already fixes the things you're complaining about, while the things OP was complaining about will be fixed eventually. The point of bringing up e-mail is that a) federation does work and b) that usability is not a hindrance by itself.