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.

  • UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    A massive search engine registered database containing years of knowledge from millions of people. Its going to be hard to replicate that.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      Unless we copy it onto here.

      So this is the third time I’ve brought that up. I should probably specify I’m willing to do all the necessary work myself, I just don’t have any money for it.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          16·
          1 year ago

          So, there’s people that have used the Reddit API to make basically a backup of it. If you could get a copy of that, you could very likely translate it into something Lemmy can read. Then, you go somewhere with protective laws in case Reddit gets involved and set up a special instance that just serves old Reddit content.

          Afterwards, to re-use an example from one of my earlier comments here, you could seamlessly go to [email protected] and see u/CanadaPlus101’s post about metal and aquatic aliens.