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.

  • Bappity@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

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

    • fl1ghtless@beehaw.org
      51·
      1 year ago

      Exactly this. I work in IT and when looking for an answer I would Google search my question followed by Reddit and normally find a post with the answer I needed. I hope Sysadmin here becomes just as active.

      • MaoWasRight@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        I wish someone could archive all that info and bring it over. I think /r/datahoarders was working on something like that

    • hardypart@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

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