A way to burn time that doesn't feel like a digital sugar rush.
Support, camaraderie, and kindness, primarily from /r/stopdrinking.
Niche stuff, like ideas for local hiking and backpacking trips, propaganda posters, and kayaking info.

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] fl1ghtless@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tetreo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Language models basically have done this in a funny way

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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