For me, it’s a few things.
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A way to burn time that doesn’t feel like a digital sugar rush.
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Support, camaraderie, and kindness, primarily from /r/stopdrinking.
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Niche stuff, like ideas for local hiking and backpacking trips, propaganda posters, and kayaking info.
Diversity and exposure to new ideas.
Whether I agree with the idea or not, breing exposed to so many different points of view changes how I look at various topics. Sometimes it reinforces and strengthens my position and sometimes I change my stance.
I feel like Reddit (and now Lemmy) allow me to engage / listen to discussions on an issue. Discussions that involve a wide assortment of different viewpoints. It’s hard to find that in most places on the internet.
Reddit was my biggest source of news. Not just because it was usually pretty up to date, but I greatly appreciated being able to check the comments as a bullshit detector. That and the article being in the comments instead of news sites’ paywalls.
It was porn. All porn. All my interests, all in a multi Reddit.
One second I’m a big adult doing very responsible reading news things.
The next am goon.
u win prize for being radically honest.
probably true for lotsa peeps. but they never say it like u did.well lemmynsfw.com seems to be trying to recreate that experience at break neck speed. Their communities keep getting bigger by the hour.
If the Lemmy dev’s add a multireddit feature you’re on your way lol.
A false sense of not being alone.
A massive search engine registered database containing years of knowledge from millions of people. Its going to be hard to replicate that.
Unless we copy it onto here.
So this is the third time I’ve brought that up. I should probably specify I’m willing to do all the necessary work myself, I just don’t have any money for it.
