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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[–] WillOfTheWest@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year 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.