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.

  • Seeker of Carcosa@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    2 years ago

    I’m looking for community engagement without the homogenised superculture. I’d like to be able to discuss books on a small book community without someone jumping in with “I also choose this guy’s dead wife” or “not my proudest fap” because it’s a low effort way of garnering meta-points. I also like the lack of an account-based point system.

    So far Lemmy is delivering and so I’m engaging here a lot more actively than I ever did on Reddit.

    • ChrV@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      Exactly, it wasn’t like this before. But the past couple years in every post in every subreddit I keep colapsing the same top comments until I find a decent comment tree with meaningful conversation.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        4·
        2 years ago

        There was also a huge problem with people posting the same comments over and over. After browsing for 10 years you could read the title and assume the top 5 comments.

        • ChrV@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          Comments used to be the best part. So many different opinions, made me say “hmm haven’t thought it that way” but now I just say why bother.