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.

  • FerbFletcher@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Relatively new Lemmy user here, longtime reddit user. I saw a comment last week that sums this up. Lemmy just hasn’t yet reached the critical mass to have spawned the niche groups that reddit has; certainly not with the activity they have.

    I suspect that, for a while, many of us will keep one foot in reddit for those niche communities. In the meantine, we can try to foster similar commities in Lemmy.