I’m a nurse and reddit has a nursing subreddit I like to contribute to because they give good advice regarding my job, how to deal with arrogant doctors, removed coworkers… they know things a regular user in a generic channel couldn’t answer, because they don’t know the job.
I think asking in a channel like this for nursing advice doesn’t make much sense, because this is not a nursing specific channel.
Something similar happens to my workplace questions: there is an antiwork lemmy, but the one in reddit is much larger and they also have a work community, and so far I haven’t found anything like that on lemmy.
Another issue is size: For some problems, like violence in the hospital I need speedy advice and I get that faster when the communities are larger. Reddit is larger.
Simply replying ‘we don’t monetize’ while true and one reason why I turned to lemmy and don’t use reddit as much now, is not convincing enough for my particular case.
Finally I see someone who thinks in my way. This is my reason to keep a tab on 4chan, Reddit, Telegram, Discord and XMPP.
Much like Reddit teaches me patience, hanging around with bankers and executives has taught me a lot about ethics! Not all were awful, but the ones that were have given me a superfluity of examples of what not to do.
Learning from what people don’t know (or don’t do) is such a neat trick! I wish I had clued in on it earlier.
If you have not, diversify your social media like I do, without even needing to touch Facebook/Instagram/Messenger (unless you do). For example, no metadata is also metadata, the same way, every type of person and communication has a different meaning and purpose. This way, you do not need to reinvent the communication wheel and is effortless, since others are doing the work for you.