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For me, it's a few things.

  1. A way to burn time that doesn't feel like a digital sugar rush.

  2. Support, camaraderie, and kindness, primarily from /r/stopdrinking.

  3. Niche stuff, like ideas for local hiking and backpacking trips, propaganda posters, and kayaking info.

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[โ€“] SallyTAB 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Niche stuff. I mostly came to reddit for discovering interesting/weird/rare plants and the best way to care for them. Googling has become absolute dogshit with obviously generated articles that are just parroting the same information (which for niche plants, can be false, speculation, and even harmful).

I'm in a couple of Discord communities (which have jumped up in activity in the last couple of days), but those communities are a bit harder to find that four year old post about "what does this type of growth mean", or something similar.

I also used reddit for tracking technology issues in much the same way - very specific, hard to locate issues that only a few people might be experiencing and talking about in a searchable way. Everything from video games, to work related technologies.

[โ€“] FearTheCron 2 points 1 year ago

+1 on a Google replacement/enhancement. I used the site:reddit.com trick all the time on Google and it made results so much better. I am hoping that Lemmy can be a high quality open repository of information as Reddit closes things off. Trying my best to help get things going.

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