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.

  • fennec@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m a bit bummed no one from r/fcbayern has made it to the fediverse yet… I need my wild transfer speculations fix!

  • spleenfiesta@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I was mostly on reddit for the information I got from the niche communities I joined. Posts regarding GPU passthrough for virtual machines, the configurations people used, problem solving for those virtual machines, I loved all of it. I only lurked though, very very rarely did I even comment, on here I’m trying to be more active. I’m hoping that as communities grow, I can get the same information I got from the reddit subs I lurked on

  • scheissberg@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Definitely number 3. I completely agree that Reddit was great for the niche stuff.

    I mean, if not for Reddit, I wouldn’t have organised multiple hiking and backpacking trips, sticking up propaganda posters about kayaking.

  • returnofblank@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I loved the new Reddit UI, I should not have to click images to enlarge them. Really hope Lemmy gets something similar.

  • AsAbove@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I liked the positivity of the community for the most part. Reddit, to my mind, was the only largely non toxic form of social media and that will be hard to replace though I’m liking Lemmy so far.

    I always liked getting into micro communities and hearing how they talked about their worlds. That might include life in obscure (relative to me) places around the world, getting into the weeds of various occupations I’ll never work in or learning about the fine details of hobbies I’ll never have. Real people having good faith conversations about highly specific things relevant to them.

    • hardypart@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I liked the positivity of the community for the most part. Reddit, to my mind, was the only largely non toxic form of social media and that will be hard to replace though I’m liking Lemmy so far.

      I think the voting system plays a huge role in that. On other social media platforms engagement always pushes the content, no matter if the engagement is positive or negative.

  • Bappity@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mostly used it for extremely specific obscure tech issues that were solved 10 years ago in random threads 🙃

    • hardypart@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      That’s why I hope that most subs make their content available again, even after shit went down the drain.