• yumcake@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don’t deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.

    I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.

    All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I’ll miss now.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s a perspective I understand and I will miss some of that. However for myself at least the removal of Reddit appears to be beneficial to me to such a degree as to out weigh the loss.

      But I already have had the benefit of 13 years of reddit opening my eyes andt 13 years of growth and experience from teenager to a responsible adult at the same time so don’t feel the mind broadening the same extent any more.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that was my immediate next thought as well. I’ve gotten so much benefit, developed so many interests from large scale community postings. I don’t know where such a thing will exist in the future for my kids, if at all. I hope time proves this to be a foolish concern and I’ll look dumb for posting such a question on the platform that answers the question.