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, bitchy 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.
That is all fair. My take is to lurk on Reddit and post as little as possible without logging in (and using alternative front ends like Libreddit or Stealth when you can). If you need to post, either because you need a quick answer to a question or want to help out someone with a question, do it, but consider posting the content to related communities on federated platforms as much as possible.
The centralized internet is only now being more widely criticized by …well, not the mainstream, but certainly more people as of late, and continuing to put more and more content onto federated platforms, while putting less and less content onto centralized ones is needed to help balance the scales against the tech giants.
TLDR; Do what you can to stay off of Reddit. Lurk on alternative front ends, and when you do post, consider posting in similar fediverse communities. Try to migrate onto more federated platforms as big tech be evil.