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.

  • namhi@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    1 year ago

    Reddit was nice because I could Google something like “best beginner DSLR camera” and I only got ai generated articles on the newest most expensive cameras, but I could search “best beginner DSLR camera reddit” and actually get good options.

    • Limeey@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      part of that is just that reddit was around for so long and had such good SEO. I doubt any lemmy community will achieve that level of SEO so it won’t be that easy. But if lemmy can just get a search bar that isn’t a piece of shit then do we really need google?

      • godofpainTR@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        What if you write, for example, “search term site:reddit.com” ? The SEO wouldn’t really matter then, would it?

    • Senicar
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.