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.
Google has become completely useless for actual actionable information. Unfortunately, I don’t know of anything that indexes activitypub in a similar manner to tacking
site:reddit.com
to a google query. I’d bet it’d already be pretty useful, since anecdotally I know a lot of smart people that put really good up to date information there.