That’s called a hobby. And hobbies are great and lots of fun.

Monetizing hobbies turns them back into a job.

Athena. She’s the goddess of both wisdom and warfare. I can’t fathom a better analogue.

Maximum Derek!

Agreed! For me right now what reddit has but Lemmy hasn’t replaced is the local/certain kinds of obscure that was on Reddit.

As a practical example, there isn’t a great soccer forum, much less my hometown team. There’s gaming but my nerdy deep lore destiny 2 sub hasn’t made it over here yet.

So far I’ve been getting by on news feeds and mastodon repost bots but I’m definitely missing some of the content from the old site. A natural response is to stand up my own, but being realistic most people just don’t have time to run a community, create content for it, and enjoy it. Reddit had a model that allowed occasional interaction with regular consumption due to its huge scale. So far that’s still not here.

My company finally went to a non expiring multi-word based policy. Took them a major breach but finally some sanity.