After going out of my way to avoid Reddit for a few days, I was shocked at how little I actually needed the site in my life.
Traditional forums and Discord work great at replacing the niche subreddits, but what I was surprised by was how easy it was to find replacements for the large low-effort content aggregation bits of Reddit as well. It used to be a joke that other sites would steal what was hot on Reddit and repost it, but it's only now that I have a full appreciation of how disposable and easy-to-leech that sort of content truly is - there are so many other places to find that kind of content it's kind of ridiculous.
The only thing I actually miss from Reddit are the long tail of technical content aggregation subreddits - places like /r/cpp and /r/Python. But I suspect those will be fine on the fediverse.
Traditional forums and Discord work great at replacing the niche subreddits, but what I was surprised by was how easy it was to find replacements for the large low-effort content aggregation bits of Reddit as well. It used to be a joke that other sites would steal what was hot on Reddit and repost it, but it's only now that I have a full appreciation of how disposable and easy-to-leech that sort of content truly is - there are so many other places to find that kind of content it's kind of ridiculous.
The only thing I actually miss from Reddit are the long tail of technical content aggregation subreddits - places like /r/cpp and /r/Python. But I suspect those will be fine on the fediverse.